Socratic Method • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

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

$1.29 $1.01 $0.19

Commander

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Burn

Qty: 2 Price: $13.48

Black Vise

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Artifact

$2.49 $4.70 $0.41

Iron Maiden

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Artifact

$10.99 $12.58 $7.45

Burn

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on this creature. Then if this creature has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from this creature.

Creature - Human Advisor

$0.69 $0.41 $0.15

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Alluring Siren

: Target creature an opponent controls attacks you this turn if able.

Creature - Siren

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 21 Price: $107.65

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature - Avatar

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$3.49 $2.32 $1.47

Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.85 $0.44

Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment

$4.49 $7.12 $6.11

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$1.49 $1.34 $1.04

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact

$7.49 $9.82 $8.50

Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card.
−1: Target player draws a card.
−10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

$2.49 $2.48 $1.25

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

$15.99 $10.64 $9.34

Jace's Archivist

: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature - Wizard Vedalken

$16.99 $15.57 $11.98

Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$12.99 $7.65 $6.71

Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$0.79 $0.50 $0.34

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

$1.79 $0.76 $0.67

Prosperity

Each player draws X cards.

Sorcery

$3.99 $9.39 $2.27

Secret Rendezvous

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Sturmgeist

Flying
Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature - Spirit

$0.49 $0.36 $0.18

Teferi's Ageless Insight

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

Legendary Enchantment

$6.49 $6.07 $3.99

The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Legendary Creature - Human Noble

$3.99 $3.77 $1.79

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $0.80 $0.31

Union of the Third Path

Draw a card, then you gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Wedding Ring

When this artifact enters, if it was cast, target opponent creates a token that's a copy of it.
Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring draws a card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring gains life during their turn, you gain that much life.

Artifact

$12.99 $10.09 $10.21

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.99 $6.09 $5.10

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.99 $1.88 $1.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $27.15

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.23

Azorius Chancery

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.20 $0.16

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.18

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.38 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.33 $0.17

Idyllic Beachfront

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Irrigated Farmland

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.23

Mystic Sanctuary

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

$2.99 $2.87 $1.55

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.23 $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

$0.59 $0.30 $0.19

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.51 $4.37

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Tranquil Cove

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

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life.

: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Bird Shark

$20.99 $22.21 $20.65

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 7 Price: $85.03

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$49.99 $46.20 $41.68

Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery

$3.99 $3.12 $1.90

Maddening Cacophony

Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery

$7.99 $6.98 $4.78

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment

$7.99 $7.82 $6.68

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment

$7.99 $4.90 $3.28

Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or greater.

Sorcery

$6.49 $3.95 $2.08

Teferi's Tutelage

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $6.48

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$4.99 $3.63 $3.14

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature - Spirit

$1.49 $0.80 $0.65

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $53.81

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.87 $0.52

Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact

$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$4.99 $5.38 $2.55

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$19.99 $20.21 $14.44

Patriar's Seal

: Add one mana of any color.

: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact

$7.49 $4.92 $3.38

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$10.99 $7.92 $7.28

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.41 $1.45

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.99 $1.16 $0.36

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $3.03 $2.22

Ramp

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Removal

Qty: 12 Price: $29.20

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

$3.99 $2.25 $2.06

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

$0.99 $1.44 $0.26

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.99 $4.00 $2.55

Dovin's Veto

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

Instant

$4.99 $3.22 $2.65

Generous Gift

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

Instant

$2.29 $1.67 $1.04

Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.37 $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

$2.79 $3.64 $1.40

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant

$0.99 $0.39 $0.20

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.42 $1.84

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.99 $1.69 $1.50

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $1.78

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature - Horror Squid

$1.29 $0.84 $0.33

Prince Imrahil the Fair

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Legendary Creature - Human Noble

$0.49 $0.31 $0.23

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $11.98

Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant

$6.49 $5.75 $5.43

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$5.49 $4.12 $3.24

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Kelpie Guide

: Untap another target permanent you control.

: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Creature - Beast

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Untap

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Maybeboard

Qty: 10 Price: $54.30

Cut a Deal

Each opponent draws a card, then you draw a card for each opponent who drew a card this way.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.31

Drumbellower

Flying
Untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature - Spirit

$5.49 $2.83 $1.56

Enter the Infinite

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

Sorcery

$8.49 $8.60 $4.02

Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size.

: Each player draws X cards.

: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact - Book

$2.29 $2.80 $1.30

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

: Each player may draw a card, then each player who drew a card this way gains 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Rabbit

$0.59 $0.42 $0.15

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$22.99 $19.46 $16.80

No More Lies

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$2.29 $2.68 $1.78

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$4.49 $2.52 $1.44

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.05 $2.93

Maybeboard

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Tokens & Extras

Qty: 2 Price: $1.14

Human Soldier

Creature Token - Human Soldier

$0.35 $---- $0.15

Knight

Creature Token - Knight

$0.79 $0.72 $0.40

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $364.80

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Avg Mana Value: 2.89Total Mana Value: 182.00

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24 pips - 19 cards

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58 pips - 42 cards

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7 mana - 6 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.89Total Mana Value: 182.00

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