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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99

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 $3.10 $1.28

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $3.48

Serra's Blessing

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

Enchantment

$1.49 $1.18 $0.96

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.44 $0.90

Anthem

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Blink

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99

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

$5.99 $5.22 $4.11

Blink

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Clones

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

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

$3.49 $4.00 $2.46

Clones

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Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $21.73

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

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

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

$1.99 $0.91 $0.61

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $8.65 $5.27

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 $2.30 $1.13

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.49 $0.32 $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

$0.79 $0.26 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $4.84

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

$4.49 $3.14 $2.75

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.21 $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 $0.32 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 26 (27 w/ MDFC)Price: $67.64

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.28 $0.18

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

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

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

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

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

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

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.19 $4.15

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Spara's Headquarters

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Forest

$18.99 $14.09 $12.66

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Legendary Land

$39.99 $28.73 $28.72

Urban Retreat

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

, Return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land

$0.79 $0.64 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $9.27

Angelic Chorus

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

Enchantment

$6.49 $1.92 $3.11

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.49 $0.57 $0.20

Tree of Redemption

Defender

: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature - Plant

$1.29 $0.71 $0.42

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost

more to cast.

: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Legendary Creature - Crab Leviathan

$4.49 $0.49 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 21 Price: $108.72

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

$2.79 $1.51 $1.04

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

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

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 $1.62 $0.57

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 $0.21 $0.15

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 $2.03 $1.03

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

$9.49 $6.88 $5.66

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

$10.99 $8.10 $7.82

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

$0.39 $0.18 $0.15

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.71 $5.80

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$16.99 $15.51 $12.18

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.79 $4.00

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $2.21 $2.17

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 $1.15 $0.27

Spidersilk Armor

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Enchantment

$2.29 $0.89 $0.62

Stoneskin

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

Enchantment - Aura

$4.49 $1.38 $1.08

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$34.99 $24.45 $23.95

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.34

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 $0.32 $0.15

Wall of Glare

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

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.39 $0.40 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 6 Price: $8.86

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

$0.79 $0.34 $0.20

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Ghalta the Immovable

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Rolling Stones

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

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.42 $0.86

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $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

$4.49 $3.84 $3.09

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $16.53

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.60 $0.26

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

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.49 $0.16

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 $0.42 $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 $0.45 $0.52

Growth Spiral

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

Instant

$0.59 $0.33 $0.18

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 $2.15 $1.30

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.34 $0.20

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 $0.27 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.55 $1.32

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$1.99 $0.97 $1.03

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Enchantment - Saga

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $1.18 $0.68

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $15.98

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180

$11.99 $7.88 $7.39

Smile at Death

At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.34 $2.28

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $16.93

Chelonian Tackle

Target creature you control gets +0/+10 until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.64 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $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 $0.89 $0.69

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 $0.33 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $0.97 $0.79

The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery

$3.99 $1.77 $1.53

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature - Wall

$5.49 $5.70 $2.15

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

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $13.99

Meekstone

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

Artifact

$13.99 $12.18 $8.00

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $14.58

Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant

$13.99 $11.61 $5.99

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

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

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

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $320.89

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.07Total Mana Value: 227.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Blink

Clones

Commander

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Mill

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tutor

Untap

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39 pips - 31 cards

Production

16 mana - 15 cards

Cost

16 pips - 14 cards

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15 mana - 14 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 5 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 5 cards

Cost

28 pips - 24 cards

Production

19 mana - 18 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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4 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.07Total Mana Value: 227.00

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Anthem

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Finisher

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Tutor

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