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Defenders Toughness Matters

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Defenders Toughness Matters

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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.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$3.49 $2.72 $1.34

Commander

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Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact

$7.99 $4.54 $4.40

Blink

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Errant, Street Artist

Flash
Defender, haste

: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Copy

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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 - Wall

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Homunculus

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Carven Caryatid

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

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Hieroglyphic Illumination

Draw two cards.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Jungle Barrier

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

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender

: 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.

Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk

$3.49 $2.46 $1.26

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

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

$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

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

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Draw

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.59 $0.19 $0.15

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Evasion

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Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Botanical Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

$2.79 $1.78 $1.09

Breeding Pool

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Forest

$7.99 $---- $9.97

Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land

$1.49 $0.41 $0.26

Forest

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: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$---- $---- $----

Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $----

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $0.51

Graypelt Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

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.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$5.99 $---- $11.13

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $9.94 $----

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$---- $---- $----

Meandering River

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$---- $---- $----

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $0.51

Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $----

Temple Garden

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Forest

$5.99 $---- $11.13

Temple of Plenty

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $---- $----

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Land

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Jaddi Offshoot

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

Creature - Plant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Landfall

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Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

Creature - Cat Monk

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Lifegain

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Coastal Bulwark

Defender
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Island.

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Mill

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Blossoming Defense

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment

$---- $---- $2.95

Clockwork Drawbridge

Defender

: Tap target creature.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$1.49 $1.00 $0.66

Dive Down

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach

: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Creature - Plant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$14.99 $10.74 $----

Resolute Watchdog

Defender

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

Creature - Dog

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

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

$3.49 $---- $3.62

Unquestioned Authority

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.99 $1.81 $1.25

Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$5.99 $4.84 $4.42

Wall of Denial

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

Creature - Wall

$0.69 $0.51 $0.33

Wall of Frost

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

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Protection

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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

$0.99 $0.41 $0.20

Ghalta the Immovable

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

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

$0.39 $0.29 $0.15

Pump

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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

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $---- $0.40

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 - Plant Wall

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

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

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant

$0.49 $---- $----

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.49 $---- $0.71

Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa

$0.99 $0.37 $0.15

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.35 $0.21

Saruli Caretaker

Defender

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Dryad

$0.79 $0.28 $0.15

Talisman of Unity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.79 $4.56 $1.34

Ramp

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Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Floodgate

Defender
When this creature has flying, sacrifice it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals damage to each nonblue creature without flying equal to half the number of Islands you control, rounded down.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Gideon Blackblade

During your turn, Gideon Blackblade is a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Gideon Blackblade during your turn.
+1: Up to one other target creature you control gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or indestructible until end of turn.
−6: Exile target nonland permanent.

Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon

$1.79 $1.13 $0.71

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.98 $2.37

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $---- $0.40

Restricted Office

When you unlock this door, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Enchantment - Room

Restricted Office // Lecture Hall (dsk) 227

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

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

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.49 $4.99 $2.58

The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery

$3.49 $2.14 $1.42

Removal

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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 - Insect

$0.69 $0.39 $0.15

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 - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Tokens

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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 - Golem

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Tutor

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant

$0.59 $0.45 $0.35

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

$0.39 $0.45 $0.36

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $109.91

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 182.00

Quantity of

Blink

Commander

Copy

Draw

Evasion

Land

Landfall

Lifegain

Mill

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Removal

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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Production

Cost

31 pips - 22 cards

Production

20 mana - 20 cards

Cost

20 pips - 18 cards

Production

17 mana - 17 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

23 pips - 22 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

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2 mana - 2 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 182.00

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Copy

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Landfall

Lifegain

Mill

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Pump

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Tokens

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