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Arcades
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $97.24
Salt sum: 19.23
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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.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212

Commander

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Draw

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Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (m3c) 231
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.)

Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
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 of Junk (dmr) 240
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90
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 of Runes (m21) 85

Draw

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Protection

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Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (ktk) 5
Cathar's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cathar's Shield (emn) 192
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
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
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
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6. Equip {3} ({3}: 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
Slagwurm Armor (mrd) 243
Stoneskin

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

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) −2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

Planeswalker
Teyo, the Shieldmage (war) 32
Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Instant
Unbreakable Formation (ltc) 179
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (plst) ARB-16
Wall of Frost

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

Creature
Wall of Frost (m10) 80

Protection

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Removal

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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
Austere Command (mkc) 56
Bant Charm

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Bant Charm (afc) 178
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (blc) 206
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (mkc) 61
Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery
Expel the Interlopers (woe) 13
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (mkc) 65
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (ktk) 142
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dtk) 65
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (war) 175
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mkc) 88
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 "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
The Battle of Bywater (ltr) 757

Removal

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Anthem

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Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46

Anthem

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4

Evasion

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Pump

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Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Accorder's Shield (m14) 204
Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Instant
Aegis of the Heavens (m19) 1
Bar the Door

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

Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment
Sight of the Scalelords (dtk) 207
Solidarity

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

Instant
Solidarity (8ed) 46
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147

Pump

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Tutor

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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
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238

Tutor

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Bounce

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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
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15

Bounce

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (mkc) 247
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (mkc) 249
Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (rna) 244
Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Bant Panorama (afc) 225
Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (dft) 252
Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (ori) 246
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Grasslands

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Grasslands (dmc) 214
Graypelt Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Graypelt Refuge (ltc) 316
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (j25) 86
Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Krosan Verge (mkc) 271
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, 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
Myriad Landscape (pip) 274
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 277
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (mkc) 288
Sejiri Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sejiri Refuge (zen) 224
Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (grn) 256
Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (mkc) 290
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (rna) 258
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (mkc) 305
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (c19) 281
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (m3c) 396
Thriving Grove

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Grove (j25) 776
Thriving Heath

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Heath (jmp) 35
Thriving Isle

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Isle (j25) 778
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (dft) 267
Tranquil Expanse

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Tranquil Expanse (m19) 259
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Woodland Stream

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Woodland Stream (ltc) 347

Land

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Ramp

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Axebane Guardian

Defender {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature
Axebane Guardian (plst) RTR-115
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmm) 377
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
Cultivate (pip) 196
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 444
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (blc) 216
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (m3c) 265
Overgrown Battlement

Defender {T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (plst) IMA-180
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (10e) 288
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
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
The Birth of Meletis (thb) 5
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285

Ramp

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Untap

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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. {2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

Untap

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Clones

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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
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13

Clones

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Lifegain

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Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. −3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Planeswalker
Huatli, the Sun's Heart (war) 230

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Cosmic Rebirth

Choose target permanent card in your graveyard. If it has mana value 3 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Cosmic Rebirth (mat) 28
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (ths) 55
Raise the Past

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 22

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Angelic Chorus

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

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (10e) 4
Aura Shards

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

Enchantment
Aura Shards (plst) INV-233
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
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 (prna) 130s
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
Panharmonicon (pip) 237
Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (mmq) 56
Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, 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
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 85

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

35 pips - 28 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
16 pips - 14 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
20 pips - 19 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 10 cards
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