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Arcades, The Strategist
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $219.48
Salt Sum: 28.87
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Commander

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Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance Whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, 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 (tsr) 371
1

Artifact

Quantity: 6Price: $12.10
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (voc) 159
1
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (ncc) 361
1
Selesnya Signet

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

Artifact
Selesnya Signet (cma) 228
1
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (c21) 262
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
1
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (plst) PCA-115
1

Creature

Quantity: 34Price: $42.60
Axebane Guardian

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

Creature
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
1
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 49
1
Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible {10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
1
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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
Drift of Phantasms (plst) RAV-46
1
Faithbound Judge

Creature
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
1
Fog Bank

Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank.

Creature
Fog Bank (plst) BBD-117
1
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When Gatecreeper Vine enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
1
Geist of the Archives

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Creature
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
1
Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (c21) 192
1
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
1
Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender When Jeskai Barricade enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
1
Marble Titan

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Creature
Marble Titan (9ed) 26
1
Mentor of the Meek

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

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (2x2) 17
1
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
1
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (jmp) 417
1
Rasaad yn Bashir

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Rasaad yn Bashir (clb) 37
1
Resolute Watchdog

Defender {1}, Sacrifice Resolute Watchdog: 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
1
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor enters the battlefield with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.

Creature
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor (snc) 215
1
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
1
Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender When Shield-Wall Sentinel enters the battlefield, 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
1
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
1
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
1
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
1
Towering Titan

Towering Titan enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control. Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Towering Titan (jmp) 31
1
Traproot Kami

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Creature
Traproot Kami (bok) 147
1
Vine Trellis

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

Creature
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
1
Walking Bulwark

Defender {2}: 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
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241
1
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (mm3) 201
1
Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures.

Creature
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
1
Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Wall of Junk 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
1
Wall of Nets

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

Creature
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
1
Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have Wall of Stolen Identity enter the battlefield 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 Wall of Stolen Identity.

Creature
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
1
Wall of Tanglecord

Defender {G}: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
1
Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender When Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control. Whenever another creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Creature
Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu) 39
1

Enchantment

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Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1. Sacrifice Angelic Shield: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Angelic Shield (ddi) 27
1
Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. {G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. {2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Assault Formation (jmp) 378
1
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
1
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.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
1
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (som) 25
1
Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (mid) 365
1

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 all colors until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 615
1
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (mic) 133
1
Cosmic Intervention

If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Foretell {1}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Cosmic Intervention (khc) 3
1

Interaction

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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
1

Land

Quantity: 38Price: $42.04
Access Tunnel

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

Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
1
Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (avr) 225
1
Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (khc) 107
1
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (dmc) 201
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cc2) 8
1
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (dmc) 208
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (m21) 272
6
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
1
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m21) 265
6
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: 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 (voc) 176
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (m21) 261
6
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (voc) 179
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
1
Seaside Citadel

Seaside Citadel enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (afc) 258
1
Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (znc) 139
1
Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (cmr) 493
1
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) Spara's Headquarters enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
1
Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
1
Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (voc) 185
1
Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Temple of Plenty (mic) 185
1
Temple of the False God

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

Land
Temple of the False God (voc) 187
1
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (dmc) 239
1

Maybe Stuff

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Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (7ed) 307
1

Planeswalker

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Oko, Thief of Crowns

+2: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") +1: Target artifact or creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. −5: Exchange control of target artifact or creature you control and target creature an opponent controls with power 3 or less.

Planeswalker
Oko, Thief of Crowns (eld) 197
1

Sorcery

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Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (tsr) 363
1
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (voc) 85
1
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (afc) 164
1
Three Visits

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

Sorcery
Three Visits (cmr) 261
1
Wargate

Search your library for a permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Wargate (plst) ARB-129
1

removal

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (c19) 63
1
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 (cmr) 48
1
Solar Tide

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less. • Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Solar Tide (mrd) 24
1
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79
1

Maybeboard

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Amaranthine Wall

Defender {2}: Amaranthine Wall gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact
Amaranthine Wall (dom) 210
1
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
1
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
1
Builder's Blessing

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Enchantment
Builder's Blessing (avr) 8
1
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (plst) GRN-233
1
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. {3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Chulane, Teller of Tales (plst) ELD-326
1
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
1
Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
1
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
1
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★
1
Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
1
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (2x2) 310
1
Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment
Primal Rage (sth) 112
1
Retribution of the Meek

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Retribution of the Meek (vis) 19
1
Serra's Blessing

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Enchantment
Serra's Blessing (9ed) 44
1
Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact
Slagwurm Armor (mrd) 243
1
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (ema) 187
1
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (6ed) 269
1

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