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Doran, the Siege Towerutility$15.52Transforms toughness into combat damage for your team, enabling high-toughness defenders to become attackers. It plays a very similar toughness-matters combat role, though it lacks the card draw and defender-specific text.Assault FormationutilityBudget$0.38One of the closest noncreature equivalents to Arcades, letting your creatures with high toughness attack effectively by using toughness instead of power. It also provides a pump outlet for defensive boards.High AlertutilityBudget$0.34Shares the same core effect of allowing creatures to assign damage with toughness rather than power and to attack through defender-style boards. It also gives defenders extra utility, making it a strong functional cousin.Battle of Witsutility$4.01Not a direct rules match, but it supports a similar style of big-board, slower-value game plan in white-blue-green shells that can stall the ground and leverage nontraditional win conditions.Cragplate BalothfinisherBudget$0.16A high-toughness body that exemplifies the kind of oversized toughness creature Arcades decks like to make relevant in combat. It is more of a beater than a payoff, but fits the same defensive-to-offensive transformation theme.Wall of Denialutility$1.71A premier defender that becomes much better in an Arcades-style shell because toughness is the relevant combat stat. It is cheap, resilient, and exemplifies the defender package.Overgrown BattlementrampBudget$0.24A classic defender that rewards a wall-heavy board and helps ramp into Arcades-style payoffs. It fits the same defender-centric shell even though it is more of a support piece.Shield-Wall SentinelutilityBudget$0.29A defender that tutors another defender, helping assemble the same kind of board Arcades wants. It is a strong support card for wall-based strategies and comes down at a similar point in the curve.
