Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card.
Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$3.99 $4.19 $1.76

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.66 $1.04

Anthem

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Blink

Qty: 2 Price: $13.48

Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant

$4.99 $5.30 $4.85

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact

$8.49 $5.13 $4.79

Blink

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Bounce

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $32.99

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$32.99 $24.73 $22.93

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 11 Price: $83.55

Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Spirit

$0.59 $0.36 $0.16

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment

$21.99 $15.38 $14.57

Jungle Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered.
Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$32.99 $23.60 $22.72

Plagon, Lord of the Beach

When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.

: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Starfish

$2.49 $0.97 $0.68

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Legendary Artifact

$15.99 $8.64 $7.81

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Cat Citizen

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk

$2.99 $2.00 $1.00

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$4.49 $4.21 $2.27

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.31 $0.17

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Towering Titan

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control.
Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature - Giant

$0.99 $0.45 $0.20

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $225.56

Access Tunnel

: Add

: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.99 $0.55 $0.55

Bountiful Promenade

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$12.99 $9.19 $8.53

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Forest

$15.99 $9.43 $8.84

Canopy Vista

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Forest

$0.59 $0.30 $0.16

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.79 $0.32 $0.19

Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$9.49 $6.40 $4.14

Dreamroot Cascade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.12 $1.04

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$22.99 $15.95 $12.67

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.30 $0.17

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$12.99 $7.69 $6.25

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.30 $0.17

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.13 $0.15

Misty Rainforest

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$44.99 $36.37 $34.36

Overgrown Farmland

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.23 $3.77

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $6.69 $5.21

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.26 $3.12

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$27.99 $21.31 $16.73

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.38 $0.17

Spara's Headquarters

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Forest

$17.99 $12.53 $11.46

Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.55 $0.32

Temple Garden

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$9.99 $6.44 $5.99

Windswept Heath

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$16.99 $12.36 $9.02

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $4.17

Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
−3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Legendary Planeswalker - Huatli

$0.69 $0.50 $0.15

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.39 $0.40

Tree of Redemption

Defender

: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature - Plant

$1.49 $0.63 $0.44

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost

more to cast.

: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Legendary Creature - Crab Leviathan

$4.99 $0.45 $0.19

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 16 Price: $76.90

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant

$14.99 $15.68 $13.45

Crystal Barricade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$3.49 $2.14 $1.04

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant

$8.99 $7.67 $6.25

Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.35 $0.20

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$20.99 $17.60 $15.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$7.49 $4.75 $4.11

Spellskite

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$9.49 $7.91 $7.09

Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Stoneskin

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment - Aura

$3.99 $1.44 $1.07

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.10 $2.43

Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
−2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teyo

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Wall of Denial

Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $0.50 $0.34

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.32 $0.16

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.37 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 4 Price: $1.74

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.35 $0.22

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Walking Bulwark

Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $32.73

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.52 $0.46

Axebane Guardian

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature - Human Druid

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.56 $0.46

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.46 $2.15

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Rampart Architect

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a 1/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
Whenever a creature you control with defender dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature - Advisor Elephant

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.72 $1.50

Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$4.49 $2.34 $1.17

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $0.95 $0.93

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $2.97 $2.86

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$8.49 $9.36 $6.08

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.99 $0.56 $0.19

Ramp

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $12.43

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant

$1.99 $0.67 $0.54

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.59 $0.16

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant

$2.79 $1.73 $1.03

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.99 $1.60 $1.05

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.99 $1.75 $1.27

Removal

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.

: Untap target creature.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.45 $0.38

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $498.28

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 201.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Creature

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Mill

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Removal

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

32 pips - 26 cards

Production

20 mana - 20 cards

Cost

13 pips - 11 cards

Production

18 mana - 18 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 4 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 4 cards

Cost

28 pips - 25 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

5 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 201.00

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