Sokratic Method • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue —

: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$2.99 $2.55 $1.55

Commander

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Burn

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$1.79 $1.83 $1.04

Burn

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $1.84

Oneirophage

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Illusion Squid

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life.

: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Bird Shark

$1.49 $2.94 $2.34

Counters

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Counterspell

Qty: 3 Price: $9.47

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $1.89 $1.85

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $3.90 $2.39

Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Counterspell

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $123.70

Arcanis the Omnipotent

: Draw three cards.

: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Wizard

$0.79 $0.40 $0.15

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature - Avatar

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Intellectual Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each draw three cards.
Choose an opponent. Untap all nonland permanents you control and all nonland permanents that player controls.

Instant

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Isperia, Supreme Judge

Flying
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Sphinx

$0.99 $0.44 $0.20

Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$14.99 $9.17 $5.88

Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.

: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

$7.99 $5.39 $4.97

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.54 $53.14

Temple Bell

: Each player draws a card.

Artifact

$12.99 $6.09 $5.67

The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Legendary Creature - Human Noble

$1.79 $0.77 $0.87

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.99 $6.05 $4.94

Draw

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Forced Attack

Qty: 7 Price: $18.71

Alluring Siren

: Target creature an opponent controls attacks you this turn if able.

Creature - Siren

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Angler Turtle

Hexproof
Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Creature - Turtle

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$0.49 $0.53 $0.31

Bloodthirsty Blade

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

: Attach this Equipment to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact - Equipment

$0.69 $0.38 $0.52

Jeering Homunculus

When this creature enters, you may goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Maeve, Insidious Singer

: Goad target creature. Whenever that creature attacks one of your opponents this turn, you draw a card. (A goaded creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able, until your next turn.)

Legendary Creature - Siren

$15.99 $12.48 $11.46

Public Enemy

Enchant creature
All creatures attack enchanted creature's controller each combat if able.
When enchanted creature dies, draw a card.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Forced Attack

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Group Hug

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment

$4.49 $7.11 $6.51

Group Hug

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $60.20

Abstergo Entertainment

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

, Exile Abstergo Entertainment: Return up to one target historic card from your graveyard to your hand, then exile all graveyards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Legendary Land

$5.99 $3.72 $1.58

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.36 $0.28

Azorius Chancery

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.23

Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Desert

$0.99 $0.27 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.36 $0.16

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.32 $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 $7.90 $6.08

Hengegate Pathway

: Add

Land

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293

$7.99 $5.09 $4.42

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

Meteor Crater

: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.

Land

$1.99 $1.77 $0.87

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 $0.35 $0.15

Pit of Offerings

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.

: Add

: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land - Cave

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Port Town

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.16

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.99 $4.13

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.

: Add

: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Legendary Land

$2.99 $1.07 $0.98

Scavenger Grounds

: Add

, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land - Desert

$0.69 $0.39 $0.20

Seachrome Coast

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.37 $0.20

Skycloud Expanse

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Terrain Generator

: Add

: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Land

$3.49 $1.41 $1.04

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact - Book

$12.99 $9.05 $6.92

Lifegain

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Mana Reduction

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

When Heliod enters, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.

: Transform Heliod. Activate only as a sorcery. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17

$2.49 $1.65 $1.26

Mana Reduction

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No Max Hand Size

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.

: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.

: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment - Class

$4.49 $2.92 $2.59

No Max Hand Size

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Protection - Once

Qty: 3 Price: $5.13

Blacksmith's Skill

Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.79 $0.32 $0.21

Light the Way

Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle. Untap it.
• Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Mandate of Peace

Cast this spell only during combat.
Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.
End the combat phase. (Remove all attackers and blockers from combat. Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this spell.)

Instant

$3.99 $1.93 $1.30

Protection - Once

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Protection - Prolonged

Qty: 5 Price: $35.55

Benevolent Blessing

Flash
Enchant creature
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Auras and Equipment you control that are already attached to it.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature - Human Cleric

$24.99 $17.44 $17.43

Ith, High Arcanist

Vigilance

: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
Suspend 4—

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.25 $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

$3.99 $3.16 $2.71

Timely Ward

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if it targets a commander.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has indestructible.

Enchantment - Aura

$5.49 $4.27 $3.09

Protection - Prolonged

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $105.51

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.74 $0.38

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.35 $0.17

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$4.99 $4.30 $2.37

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$18.99 $18.57 $13.58

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$69.99 $57.35 $57.24

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.16 $1.53

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.40 $0.35

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $3.29 $2.50

Ramp

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Removal - Any

Qty: 4 Price: $4.32

Emergency Eject

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.55 $0.17

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.88 $1.16

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Removal - Any

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Removal - Artifact/Enchantment

Qty: 2 Price: $8.34

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Steal Enchantment

Enchant enchantment
You control enchanted enchantment.

Enchantment - Aura

$7.99 $8.99 $4.16

Removal - Artifact/Enchantment

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Removal - Board Wipe

Qty: 3 Price: $1.97

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

$0.79 $0.44 $0.30

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.33 $0.17

Restricted Office

When you unlock this door, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Enchantment - Room

Restricted Office // Lecture Hall (dsk) 342

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Removal - Board Wipe

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Removal - Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $21.47

Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.53 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$18.99 $12.73 $5.88

Vengeful Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Exile X target attacking creatures.

Instant

$1.79 $0.55 $0.43

Removal - Creature

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Untap

Qty: 7 Price: $32.29

Drumbellower

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

Creature - Spirit

$4.49 $2.51 $2.16

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$7.49 $6.87 $5.98

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.79 $5.40

Ioreth of the Healing House

: Untap another target permanent.

: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Patriar's Seal

: Add one mana of any color.

: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact

$7.49 $4.29 $3.74

Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste.
At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature.
Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.20 $2.59

Unbender Tine

: Untap another target permanent.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Untap

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Maybeboard

Qty: 3 Price: $2.93

Dulcet Sirens

: Target creature attacks target opponent this turn if able.
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 - Siren

$1.29 $0.61 $0.33

Oracle en-Vec

: Target opponent chooses any number of creatures they control. During that player's next turn, the chosen creatures attack if able, and other creatures can't attack. At the beginning of that turn's end step, destroy each of the chosen creatures that didn't attack this turn. Activate only during your turn.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.29 $0.57 $0.43

Siren's Call

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able.
At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $457.74

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.33Total Mana Value: 213.00

Quantity of

Burn

Commander

Counters

Counterspell

Draw

Flash

Forced Attack

Group Hug

Land

Lifegain

Mana Reduction

No Max Hand Size

Protection - Once

Protection - Prolonged

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Removal - Any

Removal - Artifact/Enchantment

Removal - Board Wipe

Removal - Creature

Removal - Graveyard

Stax

Tokens

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13 mana - 12 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.33Total Mana Value: 213.00

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Forced Attack

Group Hug

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Lifegain

Mana Reduction

No Max Hand Size

Protection - Once

Protection - Prolonged

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Removal - Any

Removal - Artifact/Enchantment

Removal - Board Wipe

Removal - Creature

Removal - Graveyard

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