Arcades Mid • (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 $2.87 $1.32

Commander

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Attack Assist

Qty: 9 Price: $31.33

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 $17.23 $15.74

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

$0.79 $0.34 $0.22

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

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.79 $1.19 $0.76

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

Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.14 $2.78

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.69 $1.04

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.29 $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 $0.27 $0.15

Attack Assist

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Beater

Qty: 16 Price: $25.16

Aegis Turtle

Creature - Turtle

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

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

Excavated Wall

Defender

: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $0.53 $0.26

Secret Door

Defender

: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$10.99 $8.64 $6.24

Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.99 $0.37 $0.34

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 $1.67 $1.00

Tree of Redemption

Defender

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

Creature - Plant

$1.49 $0.64 $0.44

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 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

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.36 $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 $1.01 $0.81

Beater

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Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $53.31

Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.37 $0.15

Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

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

$17.99 $14.07 $13.50

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 $23.52 $22.89

Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When this creature enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Creature - Bird Monk

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

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

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $64.98

Concordant Crossroads

All creatures have haste.

World Enchantment

$49.99 $43.03 $39.82

Triumph of the Hordes

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Sorcery

$14.99 $13.98 $11.63

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 33 Price: $617.67

Access Tunnel

: Add

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

Land

$0.99 $0.55 $0.51

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.41 $0.23

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$199.99 $127.56 $132.53

Boseiju, Who Endures

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$64.99 $48.88 $48.99

Bountiful Promenade

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

: Add

Land

$12.99 $9.03 $8.51

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Forest

$14.99 $9.38 $7.81

Brushland

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.49 $0.45 $0.42

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$13.99 $9.80 $8.47

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.35 $0.19

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

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 $15.70 $12.67

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$11.99 $6.85 $6.25

Horizon Canopy

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$4.49 $3.70 $3.41

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.19 $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 $35.86 $34.37

Mystic Gate

: Add

, or

Land

$5.49 $5.97 $5.21

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$39.99 $26.41 $18.75

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

$64.99 $42.28 $43.76

Rejuvenating Springs

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

: Add

Land

$6.49 $6.89 $5.15

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.79 $0.42 $0.37

Scavenger Grounds

: Add

, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land - Desert

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$27.99 $20.43 $17.06

Temple Garden

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$9.99 $6.54 $4.80

Urza's Cave

: Add

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

Land - Urza's Cave

$3.49 $2.03 $1.14

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 $12.67 $9.25

Wooded Bastion

: Add

, or

Land

$19.99 $15.00 $14.99

Yavimaya Coast

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.38 $0.30

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$20.99 $17.34 $16.21

Land

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Protection

Qty: 9 Price: $114.27

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 $2.49 $1.04

Dawn's Truce

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.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$15.99 $8.94 $7.14

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

$8.49 $7.45 $6.25

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$24.99 $22.50 $21.22

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$16.99 $15.22 $14.22

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.46 $3.66

Resolute Watchdog

Defender

, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature - Dog

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

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 $2.41 $2.20

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$32.99 $24.83 $23.58

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $22.77

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 $0.33 $0.15

Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.43 $2.28

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.30 $0.21

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.99 $1.56

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

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $1.01 $1.00

Three Visits

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.41 $4.89

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $1.17 $0.67

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

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 $0.30 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $12.11

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.36 $0.19

Beast Within

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

Instant

$1.99 $0.70 $0.67

Destined Confrontation

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 $0.19 $0.15

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$4.99 $3.44 $2.34

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.69 $1.03

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

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

Removal

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Tutor

Qty: 5 Price: $99.35

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

$0.69 $0.36 $0.20

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$39.99 $33.10 $33.23

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$22.99 $17.62 $15.89

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

Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant

$34.99 $32.73 $26.05

Tutor

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Maybeboard

Qty: 7 Price: $11.01

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

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

Spry and Mighty

Choose exactly two creatures you control. You draw X cards and the chosen creatures get +X/+X and gain trample until end of turn, where X is the difference between the chosen creatures' powers.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $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 $0.31 $0.16

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature - Wall

$4.49 $5.88 $2.08

Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature - Shapeshifter Wall

$4.49 $4.18 $2.54

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 99Est cost: $1,045.03

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.65Total Mana Value: 175.00

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28 pips - 24 cards

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13 pips - 13 cards

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17 mana - 15 cards

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24 pips - 21 cards

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21 mana - 19 cards

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14 mana - 12 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.65Total Mana Value: 175.00

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