Arcades, the Strategist

Historic Card

This card can only be played in historic decks

Name	Arcades, the Strategist
Mana Cost
Converted Mana Cost	4
Types	Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Text	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.
P/T	(3/5)
Expansion	Core Set 2019
Rarity	Mythic Rare

Card rulings (?)
2018-07-13	Arcades’s last ability doesn’t actually change any creature’s power. It changes only the amount of combat damage it assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values. For example, Rabid Bite won’t cause a creature to deal damage equal to its toughness.
2018-07-13	If Arcades leaves the battlefield after a creature with defender has attacked, that creature remains an attacking creature, although it will assign damage equal to its power.

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