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Arcades, the Strategist
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Est deck cost: $136.20
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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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Blacksmith's Skill

Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Blacksmith's Skill (mh2) 6
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
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
Loran's Escape

Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.

Instant
Loran's Escape (bro) 14
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (plst) ZNR-71

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Land

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Arctic Treeline

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

Land
Arctic Treeline (khm) 249
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (dmc) 201
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (clb) 893
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (clb) 468
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. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Fortified Village (ncc) 404
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 457
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (clb) 907
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (clb) 453
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. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (ncc) 420
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (clb) 911
Rimewood Falls

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

Land
Rimewood Falls (khm) 266
Seaside Citadel

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

Land
Seaside Citadel (dmc) 231
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (ncc) 427
Sungrass Prairie

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Sungrass Prairie (ncc) 430
Tangled Islet

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

Land
Tangled Islet (dmu) 258
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
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 (rtr) 115
Crashing Drawbridge

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

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Creature
Guard Gomazoa (pca) 17
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
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
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
Orator of Ojutai (c17) 67
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Perimeter Captain

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

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Resolute Watchdog

Defender {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
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
Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
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
Vine Trellis

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

Creature
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (mm3) 201
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 (usg) 315
Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.) At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319
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
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.)

Creature
Wall of Shards (csp) 23
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
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
Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu) 39

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Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (khc) 54
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
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (ncc) 295
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (2x2) 17

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Bar the Door

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

Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
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.)

Creature
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (c16) 42
Solidarity

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

Instant
Solidarity (8ed) 46
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (ss2) 6

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ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped. As this artifact enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (2x2) 301
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 (clb) 821
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (ncc) 290
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 382
Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Fertile Ground (afc) 158
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (clb) 826
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (clb) 832
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (ima) 229

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (clb) 691
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (ncc) 200
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
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (clb) 820
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
Krosan Grip (c21) 198
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (nec) 95
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Stroke of Midnight

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

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33

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Deck Info

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36 pips - 29 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
10 pips - 10 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
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0 mana - 8 cards
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0 mana - 8 cards
23 pips - 21 cards
29 mana - 29 cards
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4 mana - 3 cards
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