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Commander

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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
Arcades, the Strategist (m19) 212
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $3.53

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BACKUP ARCADES

Qty: 4 Price: $2.46
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
Assault Formation (plst) IMA-155
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.97
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
Drift of Phantasms (plst) RAV-46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.31
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
High Alert (rna) 182
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.39
Walking Bulwark
Defender
: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.27

BACKUP ARCADES

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Creature

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Angelic Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Creature - Wall
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22
Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (jmp) 382
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.62
Faithbound Judge
Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as this creature has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb
Creature - Soldier Spirit
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.86
Gatecreeper Vine
Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Plant
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23
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
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.43
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Odric, Lunarch Marshal (dmc) 103
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.56
Orator of Ojutai
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When this creature enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.
Creature - Bird Monk
Orator of Ojutai (c17) 67
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.47
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Resolute Watchdog
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature - Dog
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.29
Riptide Turtle
Flash
Defender
Creature - Turtle
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.09
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $10.81
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
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.35
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $1.65
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.54
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (snc) 245
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.82
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.33
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (plst) ARB-16
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.33
Wall of Glare
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.53
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (m15) 208
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.33
Wall of Runes
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Runes (m21) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
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
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $4.53
Wall of Tanglecord
Defender
: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.34
Welcoming Vampire
Flying
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Vampire
Welcoming Vampire (vow) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $3.19
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
Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu) 39
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.23

Creature

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Enchantment

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Angelic Shield
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Angelic Shield (ddi) 27
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.23
Aura Shards
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Enchantment
Aura Shards (plst) INV-233
Color tag templates(None)
$23.99 $17.71
Brave the Sands
Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.
Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $6.35
Imprisoned in the Moon
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "
: Add
" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Enchantment - Aura
Imprisoned in the Moon (voc) 106
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.32

Enchantment

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Instant

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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
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $15.51
Bar the Door
Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.
Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (plst) CMR-395
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.75
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (dmc) 100
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.41
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
Ghostway (plst) GPT-6
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $5.07
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.51
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ncc) 211
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.55
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.36

Instant

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $105.03
Access Tunnel
: Add
.
,
: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.39
Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (khc) 107
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $7.86
Barkchannel Pathway
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.
Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$7.99 $4.62
Branchloft Pathway
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.
Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $3.55
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (dmc) 204
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.40
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (dmc) 208
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (dmc) 209
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.30
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $2.95
Forest
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Basic Land - Forest
Forest (dmu) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.10
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.55
Hengegate Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $5.54
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.39
Island
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (dmu) 266
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.18
Nimbus Maze
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains.
Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
Color tag templates(None)
$9.99 $6.44
Plains
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.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (dmu) 264
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.12
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (dmc) 225
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.32
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.55
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (dmc) 227
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.48
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (dmc) 231
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.32
Sejiri Shelter
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.65
Spara's Headquarters
(
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,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Forest
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $13.36
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.04
Temple Garden
(
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or
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (grn) 258
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.46
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (neo) 279
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.37

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Protection

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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
Eerie Interlude (khc) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $6.46
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.54
Robe of Stars
Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Astral Projection —
: Equipped creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Robe of Stars (afc) 11
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $13.49

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (dmc) 177
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.51
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
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
Azorius Signet
,
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.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (ncc) 361
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.38
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.90
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.41
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.94
Saruli Caretaker
Defender
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Dryad
Saruli Caretaker (rna) 139
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Selesnya Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Selesnya Signet (cma) 228
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.03
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (dmc) 190
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.72
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $3.41
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.17
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.35

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Sorcery

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Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (clb) 691
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.22
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (ncc) 200
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.33
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
Slaughter the Strong (clb) 43
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.24
Wave of Reckoning
Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $20.22

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Sideboard

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Blossoming Sands
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blossoming Sands (neo) 265
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Guardian Project
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Guardian Project (rna) 130
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $12.30
Irrigated Farmland
(
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or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (c20) 282
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
Scattered Groves
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Forest
Scattered Groves (akh) 247
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.52
Temple of Plenty
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
or
.
Land
Temple of Plenty (mic) 185
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.22
Wall of Frost
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29

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Maybeboard

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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
Azorius Chancery (2x2) 318
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.33
Breeding Pool
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or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $12.40
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $8.70
Selesnya Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate (znc) 139
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.12
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (cmr) 493
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.13

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Deck stats

36 pips - 31 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
13 pips - 12 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
19 pips - 18 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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