Arcades, the Strategist price & price history

What Arcades, the Strategist costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

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Arcades, the Strategist price today

$2.70

€2.61

30 days -14.6%

as of 2026-11-09

All-time high
$3.46
All-time low
$1.30
1-year average
$2.46
Data since
2025-07-24

Arcades, the Strategist has traded between $1.30 and $3.46, averaging $2.46 over the past year. It appears in 3,388 of the commander decks we track.

Card details

Card text

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.

Type
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Mana cost
{1}{G}{W}{U}
Rarity
mythic
Latest printing
The List
First printed
2018-07-13
Commander legality
Legal

Arcades, the Strategist in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
3,388

of 970,456 commander decks, 0.3%.

Median deck price
$247

most of those decks cost $79.56 to $1,269.

Median power level
4.9

runs 4.2 to 6.5 across those decks.

Arcades, the Strategist commander decks

Real decks that run Arcades, the Strategist

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

At the helm
$84.98
price
5.8
power
2.1
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{W}{U}{G}midrange
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Budget build
$75.00
price
4.2
power
2.6
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{W}{U}{G}midrange
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Typical build
$223
price
5.2
power
3.3
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{W}{U}{G}midrange
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High-end build
$1,258
price
6.3
power
5.3
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{W}{U}{G}midrange
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