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 $3.10 $1.29

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 $1.44 $0.86

Anthem

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

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

$1.29 $0.33 $0.15

Bounce

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Wall of Deceit

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Turn this creature face down.
Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.38 $0.21

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 4 Price: $5.26

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.38 $0.30

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

$3.49 $1.76 $1.37

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.74

Assassin Den

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It can't be blocked this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.23 $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 $0.26 $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 $0.32 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $16.49

Abandoned Campground

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Command Bridge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped permanent you control.

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.99 $0.47 $0.22

Creosote Heath

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.

: Add

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Etched Cornfield

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.11 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Idyllic Beachfront

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Irrigated Farmland

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.59 $0.16 $0.15

Lakeside Shack

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Lush Oasis

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.

: Add

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Overflowing Basin

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Public Thoroughfare

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped artifact or land you control.

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Radiant Grove

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Razortide Bridge

This land enters tapped.
Indestructible

: Add

Artifact Land

$0.79 $0.24 $0.15

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Tangled Islet

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Land - Island Forest

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

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 $0.26 $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 $0.20 $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 $0.21 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $1.18

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

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature - Spirit Wall

$0.69 $0.38 $0.17

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 11 Price: $85.11

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

$17.99 $15.84 $17.19

Amaranthine Wall

Defender

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $6.13 $5.27

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.29 $1.11 $0.66

Dazzling Ramparts

Defender

: Tap target creature.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

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

$9.49 $6.88 $5.60

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 $3.02 $2.02

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$37.99 $24.45 $24.35

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.33

Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Wall of Shards

Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Snow Creature - Wall

$6.49 $5.97 $4.35

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $3.07

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

$0.79 $0.34 $0.20

Baldin, Century Herdmaster

During your turn, each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Whenever Baldin attacks, up to one hundred target creatures each get +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

$1.29 $0.42 $0.15

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "

: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $1.73 $0.47

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $17.05

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.82 $0.48

Avacyn's Pilgrim

: Add

Creature - Human Monk

$1.29 $0.44 $0.42

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 $0.30 $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

$1.29 $0.41 $0.35

Farseek

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

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.59 $0.65

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Plant

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Gleaming Barrier

Defender
When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Llanowar Elves

: Add

Creature - Elf Druid

$5.49 $3.50 $2.20

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.34 $0.20

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.33 $1.54

Ulvenwald Captive

Defender

: Add

: Transform this creature.

Creature - Horror Werewolf

Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $1.18 $0.69

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.84

Colfenor's Urn

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with this artifact, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 8 Price: $24.50

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$19.99 $20.90 $15.93

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

March of Otherworldly Light

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs

less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Instant

$1.99 $0.70 $0.15

Sanctuary Wall

Defender

: Tap target creature. You may put a stun counter on it. If you do, put a stun counter on this creature. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Suppression Ray

Tap all creatures target player controls. You may pay any amount of

. If you do, choose up to that many creatures tapped this way. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Sorcery

Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza (mh3) 260

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Valorous Stance

Choose one —
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.39 $0.15 $0.15

Zimone's Hypothesis

You may put a +1/+1 counter on a creature. Then choose odd or even. Return each creature with power of the chosen quality to its owner's hand. (Zero is even.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Removal

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TO UPGRADE

Qty: 12 Price: $26.56

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.42 $2.94

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

$2.99 $2.03 $1.02

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.64 $0.15

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact

$7.99 $5.26 $4.94

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $0.57 $0.22

Shalai, Voice of Plenty

Flying
You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Legendary Creature - Angel

$2.49 $1.03 $1.17

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 $0.33 $0.15

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$2.99 $1.30 $1.01

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

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 $0.15

Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.79 $0.26 $0.15

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 $1.06 $0.93

TO UPGRADE

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Spirit

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

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

$0.39 $0.45 $0.37

Untap

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sideboard

Qty: 3 Price: $8.93

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

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

$7.99 $5.22 $4.51

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $190.04

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 198.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Bounce

Commander

Creature

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Maybeboard

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

TO UPGRADE

TO UPGRADE?

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Deck stats

Cost

Production

Cost

33 pips - 27 cards

Production

27 mana - 27 cards

Cost

18 pips - 14 cards

Production

24 mana - 24 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 7 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 7 cards

Cost

19 pips - 18 cards

Production

29 mana - 29 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

4 mana - 2 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 198.00

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Blue Spells

Black Spells

Red Spells

Green Spells

Colorless Spells

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card(s) by

having drawn

card(s)

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Quantity of

Anthem

Bounce

Commander

Creature

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Maybeboard

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

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TO UPGRADE?

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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