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Defense is the best defense
Deck Size: 103
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Est deck cost: $114.07
Salt sum: 14.1
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Anthem

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Warded Battlements

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Creature
Warded Battlements (m21) 44

Anthem

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Draw

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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
Atla Palani, Nest Tender

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 green Egg creature token with defender. Whenever an Egg you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Atla Palani, Nest Tender (dmc) 142
Carven Caryatid

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

Creature
Carven Caryatid (jmp) 382
Escarpment Fortress

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Other creatures you control get +1/+0. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Creature
Escarpment Fortress (acr) 278
Flumph

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

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
Jungle Barrier

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

Creature
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Creature
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Psychic Membrane

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature blocks, you may draw a card.

Creature
Psychic Membrane (mrd) 46
Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Walking Archive

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Walking Archive (plst) DIS-169
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (plst) STH-125
Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Junk (dmr) 240
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90
Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Wall of Runes (m21) 85

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Mill

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Doorkeeper

Defender {2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature
Doorkeeper (plst) IMA-53
Excavated Wall

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

Creature Artifact
Excavated Wall (stx) 255
Wall of Lost Thoughts

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Wall of Lost Thoughts (j25) 384

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Tokens

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Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (scd) 189
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
Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Creature
Thallid Shell-Dweller (tsr) 237
Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control. Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Creature
Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu) 39

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Artifact

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Warmonger's Chariot

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Warmonger's Chariot (jmp) 490

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Enchantment

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Testament of Faith

{X}: This enchantment becomes an X/X Wall creature with defender in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Enchantment
Testament of Faith (ody) 55

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Protection

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Amaranthine Wall

Defender {2}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact
Amaranthine Wall (dom) 210
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
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
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Glacial Wall (ema) 53
Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Creature
Guard Gomazoa (plst) PCA-17
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Living Wall

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

Creature Artifact
Living Wall (3ed) 262
Manor Gargoyle

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

Creature Artifact
Manor Gargoyle (isd) 228
One-Eyed Scarecrow

Defender Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.

Creature Artifact
One-Eyed Scarecrow (isd) 230
Order of the Stars

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

Creature
Order of the Stars (gpt) 13
Plumeveil

Flash Defender, flying

Creature
Plumeveil (uma) 218
Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Flying, defender As Pramikon enters, choose left or right. Each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

Creature
Pramikon, Sky Rampart (c19) 47
Resolute Watchdog

Defender {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Traproot Kami

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Creature
Traproot Kami (bok) 147
Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Creature
Wall of Air (10e) 124
Wall of Denial

Defender, flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Wall of Denial (cmm) 939
Wall of Frost

Defender Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature can block any number of creatures.

Creature
Wall of Glare (plst) UDS-25
Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature
Wall of Mist (grn) 58
Wall of Swords

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Wall of Swords (plst) POR-37
Wall of Tanglecord

Defender {G}: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
Wall of Vapor

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking.

Creature
Wall of Vapor (chr) 27
Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature
Wall of Vines (jmp) 443
Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender. Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 85

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Tutor

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Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238

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Clones

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Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13

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Finisher

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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 this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Faithbound Judge

Creature
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
Towering Titan

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control. Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Towering Titan (jmp) 31

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Pump

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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
Guardians of Akrasa

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Creature
Guardians of Akrasa (m13) 18
Walking Bulwark

Defender {2}: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241

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Untap

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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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Counters

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Ludevic's Test Subject

Creature
Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64
Shifting Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Shifting Wall (plst) STH-140

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Landfall

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Jaddi Offshoot

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

Creature
Jaddi Offshoot (ima) 171

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Ramp

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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
Floriferous Vinewall

Defender When this creature 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
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When this creature 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
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
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender. III — You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
The Birth of Meletis (plst) THB-5
Ticket Tortoise

Defender When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Ticket Tortoise (dft) 245
Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Wild-Field Scarecrow

Defender {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Wild-Field Scarecrow (inr) 274

Ramp

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Creature

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Dragon's Eye Sentry

Defender, first strike

Creature
Dragon's Eye Sentry (plst) DTK-11
Foriysian Interceptor

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

Creature
Foriysian Interceptor (tsp) 18
Guardian of the Ages

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if this creature has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

Creature Artifact
Guardian of the Ages (m14) 211
Guardians of Meletis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Guardians of Meletis (plst) ORI-228
Haunted Guardian

Defender, first strike

Creature Artifact
Haunted Guardian (avr) 216
Mistform Wall

This creature has defender as long as it's a Wall. {1}: This creature becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mistform Wall (ons) 99
Moat Piranhas

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Moat Piranhas (m20) 67
Necropolis

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

Creature Artifact
Necropolis (drk) 105
Primal Clay

As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Primal Clay (a25) 228
Thunder Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying {U}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Thunder Wall (ice) 104
Wall of Brambles

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Wall of Brambles (5ed) 338
Wall of Deceit

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {3}: Turn this creature face down. 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
Wall of Deceit (jvc) 5
Wall of Faith

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Faith (m10) 40
Wall of Ice

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Ice (4ed) 283
Wall of Resistance

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying At the beginning of each end step, if this creature was dealt damage this turn, put a +0/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Wall of Resistance (mir) 46
Wall of Spears

Defender (This creature can't attack.) First strike

Creature Artifact
Wall of Spears (8ed) 320
Wall of Water

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {U}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Water (4ed) 114
Wall of Wood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Wood (10e) 309
Woolly Razorback

This creature enters with three ice counters on it. As long as this creature has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender. Whenever this creature blocks, remove an ice counter from it.

Creature
Woolly Razorback (csp) 25

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Lifegain

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Overgrown Arch

Defender {T}: You gain 1 life. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: 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
Pride Guardian

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

Creature
Pride Guardian (cns) 77
Wall of Essence

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Wall of Essence (m15) 41
Wall of Hope

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Wall of Hope (lgn) 24
Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature
Wall of Reverence (uma) 41

Lifegain

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Removal

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Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.) At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature
Wall of Tears (plst) STH-50

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Deck Info

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39 pips - 34 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
34 pips - 28 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
2 pips - 2 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
27 pips - 25 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
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