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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
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.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $2.15

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $1.66

Anthem

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29
Jeskai Barricade
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wall
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.43

Bounce

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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 - Shapeshifter Wall
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $3.84

Clones

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Draw

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Plagon, Lord of the Beach
When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Starfish
Plagon, Lord of the Beach (j25) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.58
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)
Legendary Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $11.14
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor
Rigo enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Cat Citizen
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor (snc) 215
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
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
Wall of Junk (dmr) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.32
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (tdc) 138
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
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
Wall of Runes (m21) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21

Draw

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Creature - Wall
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (dsc) 95
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.35
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (cmm) 126
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14

Evasion

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.47
Barkchannel Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$7.99 $4.89
Bountiful Promenade
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bountiful Promenade (clb) 348
Color tag templates(None)
$24.99 $18.41
Branchloft Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $3.50
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (eoe) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $10.75
Canopy Vista
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: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (pip) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.35
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (pip) 259
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.35
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (pip) 264
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.32
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Color tag templates(None)
$21.99 $15.86
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mh2) 489
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.16
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (ecl) 265
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.58
Hengegate Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $5.54
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (pip) 267
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.48
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mh2) 483
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.13
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
Color tag templates(None)
$47.99 $44.44
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mh2) 481
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.20
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Color tag templates(None)
$9.99 $8.70
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $4.59
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Color tag templates(None)
$24.99 $17.84
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (who) 302
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.40
Spara's Headquarters
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Forest
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $13.81
Temple Garden
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (ecl) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.05
Urban Retreat
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
, Return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Urban Retreat (spm) 187
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.56
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $11.77
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.37

Land

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Lifegain

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Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.47

Lifegain

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Protection

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Akroma's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Instant
Akroma's Will (lcc) 125
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $16.43
Brave the Sands
Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.
Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $6.35
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Devoid (This card has no color.)
As this creature 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 - Shapeshifter Eldrazi
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (tdc) 316
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.69
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 - Wall
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.68
Hover Barrier
Defender, flying
Creature - Illusion Wall
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.40
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (tdc) 102
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $4.41
Riptide Turtle
Flash
Defender
Creature - Turtle
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.10
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (tdc) 328
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.52
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
Color tag templates(None)
$64.99 $53.05
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (cmm) 939
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.38
Wall of Frost
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Frost (mm3) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.28
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 - Wall
Weathered Sentinels (tdc) 336
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $0.90

Protection

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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.
: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Assault Formation (tdc) 246
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.31
Solidarity
Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.
Instant
Solidarity (8ed) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.27
Walking Bulwark
Defender
: 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 - Golem
Walking Bulwark (tdc) 334
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25

Pump

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.39
Axebane Guardian
Defender
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
Creature - Human Druid
Axebane Guardian (tdc) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.36
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (eoc) 50
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.71
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 - Plant
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.23
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.28
Selesnya Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Selesnya Signet (tdc) 324
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.40
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $11.32
Simic Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.38
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (plst) PLS-17
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.37
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.60
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mkc) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.42
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (tdc) 333
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.32
Talisman of Unity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Unity (mkc) 244
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $4.35
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (otc) 209
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $8.93
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.17

Ramp

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Removal

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Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (mkc) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Color tag templates(None)
$69.99 $58.16
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.69
Mana Drain
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of
equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Color tag templates(None)
$74.99 $56.16
Naturalize
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Naturalize (plst) M19-190
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (tdc) 160
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.89
Slaughter the Strong
Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.
Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (tdc) 131
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.26
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
Wall of Tears (sth) 50
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.73

Removal

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Stax

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Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Artifact
Meekstone (7ed) 307
Color tag templates(None)
$12.99 $12.20

Stax

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Tokens

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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 - Fungus
Thallid Shell-Dweller (tsr) 237
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31

Tokens

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Tutor

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Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute
(
, 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 - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.30
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 - Golem
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.35

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 2 Price: $0.94
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.
: Untap target creature.
Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.39
Rally to Battle
Creatures you control get +1/+3 until end of turn. Untap them.
Instant
Rally to Battle (clu) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.07

Untap

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Deck Info

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Deck stats

26 pips - 20 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
19 pips - 17 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
15 pips - 15 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
9 mana - 8 cards
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