Arcades The Strategist • (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 $3.11 $1.33

Commander

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Clones

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

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

$3.99 $3.71 $2.45

Clones

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $2.78

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$2.29 $0.88 $0.86

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Counters

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Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $22.39

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $10.51 $9.18

Escarpment Fortress

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Other creatures you control get +1/+0.
Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$1.29 $0.58 $0.23

Kiora, the Crashing Wave

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target permanent an opponent controls.
−1: Draw a card. You may play an additional land this turn.
−5: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token."

Legendary Planeswalker - Kiora

$2.79 $1.42 $1.03

Psychic Membrane

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks, you may draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.21 $0.18

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 $2.25 $0.96

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$2.29 $1.82 $0.73

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $46.13

Archway Commons

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Arctic Flats

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Snow Land

$2.79 $1.81 $0.57

Arctic Treeline

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Snow Land - Plains Forest

$0.79 $0.40 $0.15

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Bountiful Promenade

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

: Add

Land

$8.49 $5.88 $4.79

Command Beacon

: Add

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

Land

$12.99 $9.70 $8.87

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.25 $0.18

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $---- $----

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $---- $----

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $---- $----

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.18 $4.26

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 5 Price: $26.15

Ajani, Wise Counselor

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−3: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
−9: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total.

Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani

$10.99 $9.38 $5.19

Angelic Chorus

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

Enchantment

$6.99 $1.59 $1.97

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.99 $3.58 $3.71

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $0.53 $0.20

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 $0.25 $0.15

Lifegain

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Proliferate

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature - Elf Druid

$4.99 $3.19 $1.82

Proliferate

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Protection

Qty: 13 Price: $47.77

Amaranthine Wall

Defender

: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Consulate Skygate

Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.49 $1.13 $0.70

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 $3.63 $1.96

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 $0.35 $0.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$1.29 $0.81 $0.56

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.48 $0.36

Nivix Barrier

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, target attacking creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.35 $0.05 $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 $1.33 $0.31

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$34.99 $23.91 $22.92

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $0.50 $0.34

Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.14 $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 $1.00 $0.88

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 4 Price: $5.42

Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.20 $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 $0.35 $0.21

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature

Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.26 $3.06

Kite Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.39 $0.24 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $19.06

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.54 $0.48

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 $0.30 $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

$0.99 $0.38 $0.23

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 $2.00 $1.60

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.34 $0.23

Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.42 $0.43

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.35 $1.30

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$3.99 $1.30 $1.03

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $2.81 $2.94

Ur-Golem's Eye

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $2.23 $0.52

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.28

Next of Kin

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you may put a creature card you own with lesser mana value from your hand or from the command zone onto the battlefield. If you do, return this card to the battlefield attached to that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Road of Return

Choose one —
• Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.56 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 15 Price: $22.63

Cathedral Membrane

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Defender
When this creature dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Creature Artifact - Wall Phyrexian

$0.39 $0.20 $0.15

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.50 $0.23

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $2.57 $2.37

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$7.99 $3.78 $3.59

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 $0.32 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.99 $0.65 $0.15

Logic Knot

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.99 $0.83 $0.40

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Saw It Coming

Counter target spell.
Foretell

(During your turn, you may pay

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.37 $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 $0.27 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.99 $0.87 $0.92

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.41 $0.15

Whiptongue Hydra

Reach
When this creature enters, destroy all creatures with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature destroyed this way.

Creature - Lizard Hydra

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $11.68

Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant

$10.99 $8.00 $5.98

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 $0.46 $0.15

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$7.99 $6.76 $5.61

Untap

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Tokens & Extras

Qty: 12 Price: $7.88

Bird

Flying

Creature Token - Bird

$0.49 $---- $0.56

Kraken

Creature Token - Kraken

$1.49 $0.87 $0.45

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 102Est cost: $236.62

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.00Total Mana Value: 201.00

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Clones

Commander

Counters

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Proliferate

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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23 pips - 19 cards

Production

16 mana - 16 cards

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26 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 - 4 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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18 pips - 15 cards

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14 mana - 14 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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6 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.00Total Mana Value: 201.00

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