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 $0.71 $0.44

Anthem

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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 $0.36 $0.15

Bounce

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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 $4.33 $2.40

Clones

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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

$11.99 $8.40 $7.28

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.93 $68.92

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 $2.52 $1.25

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $0.29 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Draw

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Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Evasion

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Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.39 $0.33 $0.18

Bountiful Promenade

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

: Add

Land

$8.99 $5.96 $4.92

Canopy Vista

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

Land - Plains Forest

$0.49 $0.45 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.59 $0.38 $0.27

Deserted Beach

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

: Add

Land

$2.49 $2.19 $1.09

Dreamroot Cascade

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

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.34 $0.84

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.44 $0.17

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$39.99 $27.26 $26.05

Forest

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Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $1.83 $0.18

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Misty Rainforest

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$57.99 $44.33 $48.55

Overflowing Basin

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Overgrown Farmland

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $1.40 $0.59

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Prairie Stream

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Rejuvenating Springs

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

: Add

Land

$5.49 $3.75 $3.66

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$4.99 $2.05 $1.67

Savannah

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Land - Plains Forest

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

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$11.99 $6.56 $7.02

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.23

Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.39 $0.36 $0.17

Skycloud Expanse

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.49 $0.15

Spara's Headquarters

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Forest

$20.99 $13.54 $12.09

Sungrass Prairie

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $0.15

Tropical Island

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Land - Island Forest

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

Tundra

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Land - Plains Island

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

Windswept Heath

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$16.99 $12.32 $11.82

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$27.99 $21.67 $19.19

Land

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Angelic Chorus

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $3.00 $2.43

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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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

$19.99 $17.66 $17.09

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$---- $1.98 $1.97

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 $0.19 $0.15

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 $0.93

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$14.99 $5.90 $6.40

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

$5.49 $2.63 $2.61

Stoneskin

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

Enchantment - Aura

$3.49 $1.63 $0.83

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 $1.20 $1.23

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

$57.99 $47.66 $43.02

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$34.99 $26.64 $22.39

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.79 $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

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 $1.42 $0.95

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

$0.79 $0.39 $0.21

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Pump

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.39 $0.34

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 $0.61 $0.15

Birds of Paradise

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Bird

$12.99 $9.34 $8.02

Farseek

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.32

Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery

$3.49 $1.85 $1.86

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.38 $0.21

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$79.99 $61.08 $58.99

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.26 $0.90

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$2.79 $1.07 $0.80

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$2.29 $1.45 $1.04

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.35 $1.32

Three Visits

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

Sorcery

$6.99 $5.24 $4.94

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.99 $1.17 $0.68

Ramp

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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

$4.99 $2.96 $2.68

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

$4.49 $2.98 $2.09

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$17.99 $17.80 $17.12

Beast Within

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

Instant

$0.79 $0.40 $0.34

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $2.61 $2.50

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

$47.99 $41.76 $41.68

Dovin's Veto

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

Instant

$5.99 $4.11 $2.86

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.62 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$84.99 $65.90 $62.53

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.29 $1.81 $1.03

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.39 $0.35 $0.29

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 $0.64 $0.66

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

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Swan Song

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

Instant

$15.99 $12.85 $12.35

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.49 $1.46

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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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 $0.28 $0.15

Tokens

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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 $0.38 $0.15

Tutor

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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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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $801.60

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.81Total Mana Value: 174.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Bounce

Clones

Commander

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

30 pips - 25 cards

Production

29 mana - 29 cards

Cost

19 pips - 17 cards

Production

26 mana - 26 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 8 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 8 cards

Cost

16 pips - 16 cards

Production

28 mana - 28 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

4 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.81Total Mana Value: 174.00

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