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 $4.35 $1.83

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $4.58

Serra's Blessing

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.10 $1.09

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.29 $1.87 $1.15

Anthem

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Blink

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

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

$5.49 $5.53 $4.25

Blink

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

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

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

Bounce

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $8.34

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

$0.99 $0.70 $0.26

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

$2.99 $0.99 $0.40

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 $0.24 $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 $1.71 $1.01

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.31 $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: 3 Price: $5.93

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

$4.99 $3.20 $2.78

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.59 $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 $0.33 $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 $0.68 $0.20

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $19.60

Canopy Vista

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.18

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.39 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Forest

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: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.28 $0.22

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.32 $0.19

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.79 $0.41 $0.36

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.31 $0.17

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.41 $0.23

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $3.17

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

$0.99 $0.55 $0.15

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $0.58 $0.15

Wall of Essence

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 17 Price: $22.69

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 $0.28 $0.15

Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.14 $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

$2.29 $2.11 $1.02

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 $0.22 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$2.29 $0.90 $0.77

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

$3.99 $2.63 $1.04

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Creature - Jellyfish

$0.35 $0.28 $0.25

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Riptide Turtle

Flash
Defender

Creature - Turtle

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $1.02 $0.26

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

$4.49 $2.24 $2.32

Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Instant

$1.99 $1.49 $0.80

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $0.45 $0.35

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 $0.19

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 $1.04 $0.87

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 5 Price: $4.17

Aegis of the Heavens

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

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 $0.33 $0.20

Rolling Stones

Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.

Enchantment

$1.79 $1.83 $1.17

Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.42 $0.20

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $9.76

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 $0.63 $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 $0.66 $0.61

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

$0.39 $0.23 $0.15

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant

$0.69 $0.32 $0.25

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.35 $0.17

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.37 $0.37

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 $0.29 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.65 $1.44

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.79 $1.16 $0.67

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.98

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 $0.26 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 8 Price: $6.14

Cancel

Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

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 $0.30 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.25 $0.15

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$1.79 $1.72 $0.84

Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Stroke of Midnight

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

Instant

$1.29 $0.37 $0.19

Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $11.99

Meekstone

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

Artifact

$11.99 $12.34 $8.07

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $1.48

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 $0.35 $0.18

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

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

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

$0.69 $0.49 $0.38

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $110.18

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

26 pips - 22 cards

Production

17 mana - 17 cards

Cost

20 pips - 18 cards

Production

15 mana - 15 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

25 pips - 23 cards

Production

18 mana - 18 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

3 mana - 2 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

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Draw

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Finisher

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Protection

Pump

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Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tutor

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