Special · Time Spiral Remastered and 3 other printings

Arcades, the Strategist

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon3/5

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.

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How it plays

What it wants, and what it gives

Read from the rules text. A card that enables a keyword makes or is the thing; a card that rewards it gets better when you have it. Two cards interact when one enables what the other rewards.

It rewards

rewardsToughness mattersKeyword page →High-toughness creatures and defenders, and cards that turn toughness into damage.1,811 cards enable Toughness matters rewardsDefenderKeyword page →Has defender, or rewards creatures that do.315 cards enable Defender

It enables

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Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$3.49	$38.03
11 Nov 2026	$3.49	$38.03

Arcades, the Strategist

What it wants, and what it gives

Arcades, the Strategist

What it wants, and what it gives

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