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Arcades
Deck Size: 68
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Est deck cost: $47.68
Salt sum: 10.18
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Arcades, the Strategist

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.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212

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Peregrine Mask

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike. Equip {2}

Artifact
Peregrine Mask (rav) 268

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Academy Wall

Defender Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Academy Wall (dmu) 41
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
Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Axebane Guardian

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

Creature
Axebane Guardian (plst) RTR-115
Basilica Guards

Defender Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Creature
Basilica Guards (rvr) 7
Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Bonded Fetch (tsr) 54
Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Carven Caryatid enters, draw a card.

Creature
Carven Caryatid (jmp) 382
Cathedral Membrane

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Defender When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Creature Artifact
Cathedral Membrane (nph) 5
Clinging Anemones

Defender Evolve (Whenever a creature enters under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Clinging Anemones (gtc) 31
Clockwork Drawbridge

Defender {2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature Artifact
Clockwork Drawbridge (dmu) 13
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
Coral Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Coral Barrier enters, create a 1/1 blue Squid creature token with islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Coral Barrier (m15) 49
Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.) As Corrupted Shapeshifter enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (cmm) 944
Crystal Barricade

Defender (This creature can't attack.) You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Custodian of the Trove

Defender Custodian of the Trove enters tapped.

Creature Artifact
Custodian of the Trove (dtk) 236
Dazzling Ramparts

Defender {1}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature
Dazzling Ramparts (ktk) 6
Dragon's Eye Sentry

Defender, first strike

Creature
Dragon's Eye Sentry (plst) DTK-11
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 (rvr) 42
Errant, Street Artist

Flash Defender, haste {1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Errant, Street Artist (snc) 41
Excavated Wall

Defender {1}, {T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Excavated Wall (stx) 255
Expedition Lookout

Defender As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Expedition Lookout can attack as though it didn't have defender and it can't be blocked.

Creature
Expedition Lookout (mom) 56
Faithbound Judge

Creature
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
Floriferous Vinewall

Defender When Floriferous Vinewall enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Floriferous Vinewall (dmu) 163
Flumph

Defender, flying Whenever Flumph is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Creature
Fog Bank (cmm) 848
Foriysian Interceptor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender Foriysian Interceptor can block an additional creature each combat.

Creature
Foriysian Interceptor (tsp) 18
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When Gatecreeper Vine enters, 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
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.)

Creature
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Geist of the Lonely Vigil

Defender, flying Delirium — Geist of the Lonely Vigil can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Geist of the Lonely Vigil (emn) 27
Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Glacial Wall (ema) 53
Gleaming Barrier

Defender When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Gleaming Barrier (fdn) 252
Golden Guardian

Creature Artifact
Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison (rix) 179Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison (rix) 179
Gomazoa

Defender, flying {T}: Put Gomazoa and each creature it's blocking on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle.

Creature
Gomazoa (cmd) 48
Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach {4}{G}: Grappling Sundew gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Creature
Grappling Sundew (grn) 131
Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Guard Gomazoa.

Creature
Guard Gomazoa (plst) PCA-17
Guardians of Meletis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Guardians of Meletis (plst) ORI-228
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Infested Roothold

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Protection from artifacts Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, you may create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature
Infested Roothold (dst) 76
Jaddi Offshoot

Defender Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Jaddi Offshoot (ima) 171
Jeskai Barricade

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

Creature
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Jungle Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Jungle Barrier enters, draw a card.

Creature
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch (bok) 39
Living Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Creature Artifact
Living Wall (3ed) 262
Ludevic's Test Subject

Creature
Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64
Manor Gargoyle

Defender Manor Gargoyle has indestructible as long as it has defender. {1}: Until end of turn, Manor Gargoyle loses defender and gains flying.

Creature Artifact
Manor Gargoyle (isd) 228
Mnemonic Wall

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

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
Monastery Flock

Defender, flying Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Monastery Flock (ktk) 47
Murmuring Phantasm

Defender

Creature
Murmuring Phantasm (jmp) 157
Necropolis

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put X +0/+1 counters on Necropolis, where X is the exiled card's mana value.

Creature Artifact
Necropolis (drk) 105
Nivix Barrier

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Nivix Barrier enters, target attacking creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Creature
Nivix Barrier (ori) 66
Novice Knight

Defender (This creature can't attack.) As long as Novice Knight is enchanted or equipped, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Novice Knight (plst) M19-30
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo instead. {1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

Creature
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo (bok) 17
Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Defender, flying When Orator of Ojutai enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Creature
Orator of Ojutai (c17) 67
Order of the Stars

Defender (This creature can't attack.) As Order of the Stars enters, choose a color. Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.

Creature
Order of the Stars (gpt) 13
Overgrown Arch

Defender {T}: You gain 1 life. {2}, Sacrifice Overgrown Arch: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature
Overgrown Arch (stx) 139
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Perimeter Captain

Defender Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Creature
Perimeter Captain (plst) WWK-16

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Enchantment

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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 (plst) IMA-155
Aurification

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it. Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.) When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.

Enchantment
Aurification (ons) 6
Candletrap

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has defender. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature. Coven — {2}{W}, Sacrifice Candletrap: Exile enchanted creature. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.

Enchantment
Candletrap (mid) 9
Deep Freeze

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/4, has defender, loses all other abilities, and is a blue Wall in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment
Deep Freeze (plst) DOM-50
Guard Duty

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has defender.

Enchantment
Guard Duty (ima) 22
Guardian Zendikon

Enchant land Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land. When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Guardian Zendikon (cns) 71
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 (plst) RNA-182

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27 pips - 24 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
24 pips - 24 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
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0 mana - 3 cards
13 pips - 12 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
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