Arcades • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

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

$3.99 $4.54 $1.83

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$2.29 $1.84 $1.15

Anthem

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Blink

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact

$9.49 $5.87 $4.55

Blink

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

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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Creature

Qty: 4 Price: $19.76

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$10.99 $9.37 $5.99

Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.29 $0.37 $0.34

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$6.49 $4.58 $3.33

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

$0.99 $0.44 $0.20

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 12 Price: $103.04

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature - Elf Druid

$11.99 $8.64 $7.77

Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Jungle Barrier

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

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.44 $2.29

Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

Sorcery

$2.29 $0.62 $0.64

Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment

$79.99 $65.44 $49.48

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.69 $0.21 $0.20

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.64 $0.47

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.64

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$1.29 $1.18 $0.31

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 33 Price: $125.57

Azorius Chancery

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.30 $0.16

Bountiful Promenade

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

: Add

Land

$13.99 $11.29 $5.99

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Forest

$14.99 $10.46 $8.84

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.40 $0.15

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.11 $0.15

Ghost Quarter

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$0.99 $0.54 $0.42

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.13 $0.52

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$10.99 $7.42 $6.86

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

$1.79 $0.85 $0.45

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$7.49 $4.87 $4.58

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$27.99 $20.72 $18.23

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.31 $0.17

Selesnya Sanctuary

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.29 $0.19

Simic Growth Chamber

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.34 $0.19

Strip Mine

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land

$20.99 $19.92 $13.13

Sunpetal Grove

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $1.10 $0.51

Temple Garden

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

$10.99 $8.13 $7.03

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $10.87

Angelic Chorus

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

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.63 $4.75

Perimeter Captain

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

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.99 $1.37 $0.43

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 $0.29 $0.15

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 7 Price: $44.63

Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment

$6.49 $5.88 $3.59

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 $6.97 $6.52

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

$20.99 $16.84 $13.54

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.59 $0.58 $0.51

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.25 $0.18

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

$5.99 $6.67 $3.25

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 2 Price: $1.28

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 $0.69 $0.34

Tower Defense

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

Instant

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $24.29

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 $0.22 $0.15

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.27 $0.20

Farseek

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

Sorcery

$1.99 $0.62 $0.55

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.35 $0.19

Selesnya Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.85 $0.42

Simic Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.39 $0.33 $0.26

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $1.89 $1.80

Sunscape Familiar

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

less to cast.

Creature - Wall

$4.99 $2.01 $1.04

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

$2.99 $1.38 $0.88

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $4.20 $3.64

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.24 $0.20

Wall of Roots

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

. Activate only once each turn.

Creature - Plant Wall

$1.29 $0.80 $0.57

Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature - Elf Scout

$0.79 $0.45 $0.38

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.14

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 $0.22 $0.15

Reveillark

Flying
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke

(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature - Elemental

$0.79 $0.76 $0.43

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 12 Price: $47.74

Aura Shards

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

Enchantment

$29.99 $28.00 $23.60

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.06 $0.85

Beast Within

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

Instant

$1.99 $0.72 $0.67

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $2.54 $2.34

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.31 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.34 $0.20

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$1.99 $1.14 $0.70

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $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

$0.49 $0.42 $0.15

Solar Tide

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.77 $0.26

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$3.49 $1.47 $1.56

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

$0.69 $0.61 $0.25

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 2 Price: $13.98

Meekstone

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

Artifact

$11.99 $12.17 $8.07

Rest in Peace

When this enchantment enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.24 $0.72

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature - Insect

$1.49 $1.57 $0.34

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Spirit

$0.79 $0.48 $0.26

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

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

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Untap

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

Marble Titan

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

Creature - Giant

$2.49 $1.92 $1.42

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 99Est cost: $413.37

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.73Total Mana Value: 180.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Creature

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Cost

33 pips - 25 cards

Production

19 mana - 19 cards

Cost

18 pips - 16 cards

Production

19 mana - 19 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

24 pips - 22 cards

Production

22 mana - 22 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

8 mana - 5 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.73Total Mana Value: 180.00

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Anthem

Blink

Bounce

Commander

Creature

Draw

Evasion

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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