Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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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

$2.99 $2.81 $1.59

Commander

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Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.29 $0.72 $0.45

Anthem

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Captain America's Shield

Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +0/+8 and has vigilance.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $0.91 $0.58

Artifact

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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 $3.40 $3.02

Blink

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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

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

Bounce

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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 $0.35 $0.15

Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Flumph

Defender, flying
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature - Jellyfish

$4.49 $2.39 $1.36

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.79 $4.71 $5.35

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 $0.29 $0.15

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $0.28 $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

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.31 $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 $0.24 $0.15

Draw

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.22 $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 $0.30 $0.15

Evasion

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Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.37 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Land

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Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $0.53 $0.15

Lifegain

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Angelic Shield

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

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $6.14 $5.14

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.49 $1.00 $0.66

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 $1.73 $0.98

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 $0.33 $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

$0.69 $1.15 $0.26

Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.29 $0.38 $0.31

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.31

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

$0.69 $0.26 $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

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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 $1.43 $0.88

Protection

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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 $0.39 $0.21

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Pump

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.56 $0.40

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 $0.62 $0.15

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.32 $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

$0.79 $0.67 $0.32

Farseek

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.48 $0.50

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

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Growth Spiral

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

Instant

$0.69 $0.30 $0.20

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 $2.18 $1.72

Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.09 $2.51

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.37 $0.21

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.36 $0.36

Selesnya Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.51 $0.31

Simic Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.32 $0.19

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$2.79 $1.18 $0.79

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $1.27 $1.09

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.99 $1.17 $0.68

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Ramp

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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 $0.28 $0.15

Faith's Reward

Return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant

$2.49 $2.02 $1.17

Raise the Past

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.77 $0.20

Recursion

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Bant Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.

Instant

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Beast Within

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

Instant

$1.79 $1.19 $0.71

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.02 $2.36

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.61 $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 $0.31 $0.15

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.29 $2.09 $1.13

Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant

$1.29 $1.16 $0.79

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $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

$0.39 $0.29 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.81 $1.35

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

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.38 $0.15

Removal

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Meekstone

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

Artifact

$11.99 $12.06 $7.90

Stax

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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

$0.49 $0.45 $0.32

Untap

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Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.29 $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

$9.99 $5.77 $5.64

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 $0.14 $0.15

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $4.77 $4.22

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

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 $0.33 $0.15

Riptide Turtle

Flash
Defender

Creature - Turtle

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

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

$1.49 $1.00 $0.27

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.49 $0.17 $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

$2.99 $2.71 $2.30

Sylvan Reclamation

Exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Instant

$0.35 $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

$3.99 $2.51 $1.26

Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach
Leap of Faith —

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Traproot Kami

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.12 $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 $0.42 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 101Est cost: $119.28

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.44Total Mana Value: 161.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Artifact

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Untap

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36 pips - 30 cards

Production

22 mana - 22 cards

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14 pips - 12 cards

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12 mana - 12 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 3 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 3 cards

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21 pips - 20 cards

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19 mana - 19 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 0 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.44Total Mana Value: 161.00

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