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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
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
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212

Commander

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Creatures

Qty: 28 Price: $67.10
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 (tdc) 248
Chulane, Teller of Tales
Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
,
: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Druid
Chulane, Teller of Tales (mkc) 202
Colossus of Akros
Defender, indestructible
: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
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 - Wall
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Gate Colossus
Affinity for Gates (This spell costs
less to cast for each Gate you control.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Gate Colossus (fdn) 675
Gatebreaker Ram
This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control.
As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.
Creature - Sheep
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126
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 (rtr) 124
Mnemonic Wall
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Wall
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Sage of the Maze
: Add two mana in any combination of colors.
: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.
Creature - Wizard Elf
Sage of the Maze (m3c) 119
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
Spellskite
: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Spellskite (clb) 873
Sun Titan
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Giant
Sun Titan (tdc) 133
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (plst) PLS-17
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall
The Walls of Ba Sing Se (tla) 261
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 (tdc) 334
Wall of Air
Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Air (8ed) 113
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
Wall of Essence
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Essence (m15) 41
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
Wall of Kelp
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Kelp (hml) 40
Wall of One Thousand Cuts
Defender, flying
: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
Creature - Wall
Wall of One Thousand Cuts (plst) MH1-36
Wall of Pine Needles
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Pine Needles (ice) 274
Wall of Resistance
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if this creature was dealt damage this turn, put a +0/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Resistance (mir) 46
Wall of Shields
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Wall of Shields (ice) 347
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
Wall of Tears (sth) 50
Wall of Vapor
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Vapor (chr) 27
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 - Wall
Weathered Sentinels (tdc) 336

Creatures

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Draw

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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.)
Legendary Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505

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Enchantments

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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 (tdc) 246
Fortified Area
Wall creatures you control get +1/+0 and have banding. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Enchantment
Fortified Area (4ed) 26
Hold the Gates
Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.
Enchantment
Hold the Gates (gtc) 16
Intruder Alarm
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (tle) 15
Nature's Blessing
, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or that creature gains banding, first strike, or trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely. Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Enchantment
Nature's Blessing (all) 110

Enchantments

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Land

Qty: 34 (35 w/ MDFC)Price: $57.66
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (tdc) 338
Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (rvr) 272
Baldur's Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.
Legendary Land - Gate
Baldur's Gate (plst) CLB-345
Basilisk Gate
: Add
.
,
: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Gate
Basilisk Gate (m3c) 320
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (fic) 377
Citadel Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than white.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tmc) 63
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (tmc) 66
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (j25) 93
Gateway Plaza
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay
.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land - Gate
Gateway Plaza (grn) 247
Gond Gate
Gates you control enter untapped.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.
Land - Gate
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (j25) 86
Krosan Verge
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (otc) 304
Manor Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.
Land
Maze's End (fdn) 727
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (drc) 61
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (j25) 81
Planar Nexus
This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.)
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Planar Nexus (m3c) 132
Plaza of Harmony
When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.
Land
Plaza of Harmony (plst) RNA-254
Sea Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (mkc) 288
Selesnya Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate (fdn) 694
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (m3c) 378
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (eoc) 181
Spire of Industry
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.
Land
Spire of Industry (eoc) 183
Talon Gates of Madara
When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Land - Gate
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
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
or
.
Land
Temple of Enlightenment (eoc) 186
Temple of Mystery
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 Mystery (fic) 436
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 (fic) 437
Tranquil Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Urban Retreat
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
, Return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Urban Retreat (spm) 187
Urza's Cave
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land - Urza's Cave
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (tdc) 413

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Protection

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Baton of Morale
: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Artifact
Baton of Morale (ice) 313
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (who) 243
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (pip) 242

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Ramp

Qty: 2 Price: $3.48
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (ecc) 55
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tmc) 59

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Recursion

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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
Endless Detour
The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Instant
Endless Detour (fic) 324
Sevinne's Reclamation
Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (otc) 86

Recursion

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fic) 267
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 (fic) 231
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Disenchant (fdn) 572
Naturalize
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Naturalize (plst) M19-190
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Instant
Nature's Claim (fca) 47
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
Path to Exile (pza) 1
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (scd) 37

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Tutor

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Analyze the Pollen
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 8. (Exile cards with total mana value 8 or greater from your graveyard.)
Search your library for a basic land card. If evidence was collected, instead search your library for a creature or land card. Reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Analyze the Pollen (mkm) 150
Bring to Light
Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Bring to Light (2x2) 188
Idyllic Tutor
Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
Plea for Guidance
Search your library for up to two enchantment cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Plea for Guidance (bng) 24

Tutor

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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.
: Untap target creature.
Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

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Deck stats

26 pips - 22 cards
26 mana - 25 cards
20 pips - 16 cards
26 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
15 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
15 mana - 14 cards
22 pips - 22 cards
28 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
16 mana - 15 cards
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