Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

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

$3.49 $2.90 $1.32

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 $1.69 $1.04

Anthem

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Draw

Qty: 5 Price: $20.65

Fecund Greenshell

Reach
As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature - Elemental Turtle

$0.79 $0.82 $0.15

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 $8.60 $7.81

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 $1.86 $1.66

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.34

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$0.99 $0.26 $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 $0.28 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $1.98

Faithbound Judge

Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as this creature has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb

Creature - Soldier Spirit

Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12

$0.99 $1.08 $0.50

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 $0.36 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $22.79

Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Bant Panorama

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.49 $0.37 $0.29

Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Canopy Vista

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$0.59 $0.22 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.28 $0.18

Escape Tunnel

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Overflowing Basin

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Overgrown Farmland

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

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.25 $3.77

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$---- $0.18 $0.15

Radiant Grove

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.23 $0.15

Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.32 $0.20

Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.37 $0.25

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Skycloud Expanse

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Sungrass Prairie

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.33 $0.20

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Temple of Plenty

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Tranquil Landscape

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $3.28

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $1.37 $0.41

Tree of Redemption

Defender

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

Creature - Plant

$1.49 $0.65 $0.44

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 16 Price: $40.98

Amaranthine Wall

Defender

: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature - Turtle

$2.49 $1.45 $0.77

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment

$5.99 $6.13 $5.66

Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.)
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature - Shapeshifter Eldrazi

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.79 $1.19 $0.76

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

$4.99 $3.89 $3.52

Ethereal Haze

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn.

Instant - Arcane

$0.79 $1.23 $0.51

Fog

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$1.29 $0.86 $0.62

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Holy Day

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$2.29 $1.39 $0.37

Stoneskin

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

Enchantment - Aura

$3.49 $1.45 $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

$4.99 $3.26 $2.60

Tangle

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Each attacking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Instant

$8.49 $4.42 $4.06

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.99 $0.49 $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

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, reach, vigilance, trample
This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.99 $1.01 $0.80

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $1.09

Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.39 $0.35 $0.28

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 12 Price: $39.94

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $0.55 $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 $0.32 $0.15

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.46 $0.20

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.21 $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 $0.57 $0.46

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.79 $1.70 $0.84

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.29 $0.21

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.40 $0.35

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 $0.32 $0.15

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature - Spirit

$20.99 $18.51 $17.71

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$6.99 $7.83 $5.51

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$3.49 $1.26 $1.02

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Reunion of the House

Return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Reunion of the House.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 14 Price: $16.48

Bant Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.

Instant

$0.49 $0.27 $0.19

Beast Within

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

Instant

$1.99 $0.66 $0.66

Collective Resistance

Escalate

(Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$2.99 $2.76 $1.59

Deep Freeze

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/4, has defender, loses all other abilities, and is a blue Wall in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.24 $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 $0.33 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

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

$2.79 $1.19 $1.15

Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant

$0.99 $0.38 $0.22

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.99 $1.58 $1.27

The Wanderer

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control.
−2: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

Legendary Planeswalker

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature - Insect

$0.79 $0.41 $0.15

Tokens

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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

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Untap

Qty: 2 Price: $0.94

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

Refuse to Yield

Target creature gets +2/+7 until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $157.02

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.06Total Mana Value: 193.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Commander

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

34 pips - 27 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

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13 pips - 11 cards

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19 mana - 19 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 5 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 5 cards

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26 pips - 23 cards

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26 mana - 26 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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4 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.06Total Mana Value: 193.00

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