Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

66 views

Commander

Size: 98

No deck tags

GammaSpark

Playtester

GammaSpark

66 views

Commander

Size: 98

No deck tags

Please consider supporting our Patreon to remove ads

Add card

View as

Group by

Sort by

Price sources

Local filter

Choose your preferred layout. You can mix and match options using the View as & Group by drop-downs above.

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 $2.74 $1.30

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

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

$0.99 $0.28 $0.15

Bounce

(CTRL to add secondary)

Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Taigam, Master Opportunist

Flurry — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, then exile the spell you cast with four 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.)

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

$1.79 $1.13 $0.50

Copy

(CTRL to add secondary)

Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $42.29

Academy Wall

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Alphinaud Leveilleur

Partner with Alisaie Leveilleur (When this creature enters, target player may put Alisaie Leveilleur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Vigilance
Eukrasia — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Elf

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

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

$24.99 $20.87 $19.27

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep

(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$14.99 $11.56 $11.23

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Draw

(CTRL to add secondary)

Evasion

Qty: 4 Price: $1.64

Coralhelm Guide

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature - Scout Merfolk Ally

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Jhessian Balmgiver

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.59 $0.19 $0.15

Wormhole Serpent

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature - Serpent

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Evasion

(CTRL to add secondary)

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 $0.35 $0.15

Finisher

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Qty: 37 Price: $106.21

Access Tunnel

: Add

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

Land

$0.99 $0.56 $0.58

Bountiful Promenade

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

: Add

Land

$8.99 $5.66 $5.57

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Forest

$13.99 $9.04 $7.51

Brushland

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.49 $0.41 $0.35

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.22

Dreamroot Cascade

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

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.49 $0.84

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.79 $0.37 $0.15

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

$2.79 $2.16 $1.08

Hushwood Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Forest or a Plains.

Land

$11.99 $7.44 $7.43

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Rejuvenating Springs

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

: Add

Land

$4.99 $3.74 $3.61

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.36 $4.28

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.99 $0.40 $0.38

Savannah

(

: Add

Land - Plains Forest

$---- $---- $----

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Spara's Headquarters

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Forest

$19.99 $13.33 $12.46

Sungrass Prairie

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.65 $0.26

Temple Garden

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$9.99 $6.20 $5.57

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

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land

$---- $0.24 $0.15

Willowrush Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Land

$8.49 $4.35 $3.64

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $6.48

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment

$5.99 $7.91 $4.01

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 $0.37 $0.15

Lifegain

(CTRL to add secondary)

Protection

Qty: 15 Price: $124.63

Absolute Virtue

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
You have protection from each of your opponents. (You can't be dealt damage, enchanted, or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents.)

Legendary Creature - Warrior Avatar

$8.49 $6.42 $6.23

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 $18.49 $17.15

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $6.20 $5.21

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.49 $1.00 $0.66

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

$20.99 $20.76 $10.40

Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Gaea's Herald

Creature spells can't be countered.

Creature - Elf

$2.49 $2.72 $0.89

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$17.99 $15.54 $13.33

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant

When you have 30 or more life, flip Rune-Tail.

Legendary Creature - Monk Fox

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence (plst) SOK-27

$5.49 $4.37 $3.69

Stoneskin

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

Enchantment - Aura

$3.99 $1.47 $0.97

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$37.99 $23.24 $24.48

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.51 $0.33

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 $0.33 $0.15

Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Protection

(CTRL to add secondary)

Pump

Qty: 4 Price: $7.32

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

$0.99 $0.40 $0.20

Rolling Stones

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

Enchantment

$1.99 $2.44 $0.69

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment

$3.99 $4.06 $2.85

Pump

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $6.53

Alisaie Leveilleur

Partner with Alphinaud Leveilleur (When this creature enters, target player may put Alphinaud Leveilleur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
First strike
Dualcast — The second spell you cast each turn costs

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Elf

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.42 $0.40

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

Selesnya Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.51 $0.31

Simic Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.35 $0.22

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.25 $1.34

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

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 $0.28 $0.15

Recursion

(CTRL to add secondary)

Removal

Qty: 16 Price: $120.36

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$5.49 $2.93 $2.60

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

$3.99 $2.98 $2.09

Bamboo Grove Archer

Defender, reach
Channel —

, Discard this card: Destroy target creature with flying.

Creature Enchantment - Archer Snake

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.34 $2.91

Dovin's Veto

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

Instant

$5.49 $3.43 $2.91

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 $0.33 $0.15

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.29 $2.06 $1.06

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $54.83 $49.71

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $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

$2.49 $1.68 $1.29

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

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$3.49 $4.04 $2.58

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $11.39 $11.32

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.46 $1.34

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Meekstone

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

Artifact

$12.99 $12.06 $7.82

Stax

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sideboard

Qty: 15 Price: $116.62

Arcades, Master Strategist (Yap Cab)

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 / 5

$---- $---- $----

Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$39.99 $39.11 $38.50

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Glare of Subdual

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact or creature.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.51 $0.15

Growth Spiral

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

Instant

$0.59 $0.30 $0.18

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 $0.36

Kodama's Reach

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 - Arcane

$3.49 $1.96 $1.77

Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.59 $2.50

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.39 $0.36

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 $0.35 $0.15

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$54.99 $48.24 $43.76

Three Visits

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.16 $5.15

Troublemaker Ouphe

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was bargained, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature - Ouphe

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Waterbender Ascension

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a quest counter on this enchantment. Then if it has four or more quest counters on it, draw a card.
Waterbend

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for

Enchantment

$1.49 $0.88 $0.15

Sideboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 5 Price: $14.41

Aang and Katara

Whenever Aang and Katara enter or attack, create X 1/1 white Ally creature tokens, where X is the number of tapped artifacts and/or creatures you control.

Legendary Creature - Human Avatar Ally

$11.99 $8.07 $6.02

Dormant Sliver

All Sliver creatures have defender.
All Slivers have "When this permanent enters, draw a card."

Creature - Sliver

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Glarecaster

Flying

: The next time damage would be dealt to this creature and/or you this turn, that damage is dealt to any target instead.

Creature - Cleric Bird

$0.59 $0.42 $0.26

Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• You may tap or untap target creature.
• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.42 $0.18

Sidequest: Card Collection

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards.
At the beginning of your end step, if eight or more cards are in your graveyard, transform this enchantment.

Enchantment

Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card (fin) 73

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 98Est cost: $552.68

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.93Total Mana Value: 179.00

Quantity of

Bounce

Commander

Copy

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Please consider supporting our Patreon to remove ads

Deck stats

Cost

Production

Cost

29 pips - 25 cards

Production

20 mana - 20 cards

Cost

26 pips - 23 cards

Production

20 mana - 20 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

18 pips - 13 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

7 mana - 6 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.93Total Mana Value: 179.00

Mana curve by

White Spells

Blue Spells

Black Spells

Red Spells

Green Spells

Colorless Spells

Probability of draw

card(s) by

having drawn

card(s)

CategoriesQtyOdds

Quantity of

Bounce

Commander

Copy

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Group by

Sort by

Click charts to focus on cards

Deck extras (0)

Description

This deck has no description