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Commander

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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
Arcades, the Strategist (tsr) 371

Commander

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Combat

Qty: 7 Price: $77.29
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 (cmr) 3
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 (dtk) 173
Concordant Crossroads
All creatures have haste.
World Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 367
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
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Triumph of the Hordes
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Sorcery
Triumph of the Hordes (nph) 123

Combat

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Defenders

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Cathedral Membrane
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Defender
When this creature dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.
Creature Artifact - Wall Phyrexian
Cathedral Membrane (nph) 5
Consulate Skygate
Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Consulate Skygate (bbd) 232
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Hover Barrier
Defender, flying
Creature - Illusion Wall
Hover Barrier (gk2) 6
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
Jungle Barrier
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Jungle Barrier (apc) 106
Mnemonic Wall
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Wall
Mnemonic Wall (ima) 67
Orator of Ojutai
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When this creature enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.
Creature - Bird Monk
Orator of Ojutai (f15) 9
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (grn) 142
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Tree of Redemption
Defender
: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Wall of Air
Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Air (10e) 124
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (sth) 125
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (arb) 16
Wall of Faith
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Faith (m10) 40
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 (pca) 28
Wall of Glare
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
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
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (ema) 34
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
Wall of Resistance (mir) 46
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
Wall of Shards
Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Snow Creature - Wall
Wall of Shards (csp) 23
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
Wall of Tanglecord
Defender
: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
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
Wall of Vines
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Vines (m19) 210

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Land

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Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Barkchannel Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290
Bountiful Promenade
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bountiful Promenade (bbd) 81
Branchloft Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 284Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 284
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 (rna) 246
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 (ktk) 233
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (iko) 274
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
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 (rna) 251
Hengegate Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (iko) 263
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 (mm3) 240
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (iko) 260
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Savannah
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Forest
Savannah (3ed) 285
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (bbd) 84
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
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 (grn) 258
Tropical Island
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Island Forest
Tropical Island (3ed) 288
Tundra
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Island
Tundra (3ed) 289
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 (ktk) 248

Land

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Mana Dorks

Qty: 10 Price: $55.66
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 (rtr) 115
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (cn2) 176
Elvish Mystic
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elvish Mystic (tsr) 360
Fyndhorn Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Fyndhorn Elves (ice) 244
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (m19) 314
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: Add
,
, or
.
Creature - Human Druid
Noble Hierarch (2xm) 177
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (ima) 180
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (f08) 7

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Protection

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Constant Mists
Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Constant Mists (sth) 104
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (tsr) 375
Eerie Interlude
Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Eerie Interlude (soi) 16
Ephemerate
Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Instant
Ephemerate (mh1) 7
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
Ghostly Flicker
Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.
Instant
Ghostly Flicker (avr) 57
Ghostway
Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Ghostway (gpt) 6
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (aer) 109
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (c15) 257
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 (cm2) 223
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 (c17) 8

Protection

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Removal

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Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (c19) 63
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (c17) 60
Return to Dust
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Return to Dust (c18) 71
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 (rix) 22
Wave of Reckoning
Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (mmq) 56

Removal

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Value

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Cloudstone Curio
Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.
Artifact
Cloudstone Curio (mps) 10
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
Panharmonicon (tsr) 399

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Maybeboard

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Akroma's Memorial
Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.
Legendary Artifact
Akroma's Memorial (tsr) 262
Alchemist's Refuge
: Add
.
,
: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Alchemist's Refuge (avr) 225
Arbor Elf
: Untap target Forest.
Creature - Elf Druid
Arbor Elf (a25) 160
Armageddon
Destroy all lands.
Sorcery
Armageddon (a25) 5
Aura Shards
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Enchantment
Aura Shards (inv) 233
Austere Command
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Austere Command (cmr) 618
Catastrophe
Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Catastrophe (usg) 6
Comeuppance
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.
Instant
Comeuppance (c14) 4
Eladamri's Call
Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (mir) 14
Idyllic Tutor
Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
Krosan Grip
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Krosan Grip (c15) 189
Obscuring Haze
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.
Instant
Obscuring Haze (c20) 61
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (cmr) 708
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Semester's End
Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.
Instant
Semester's End (stx) 292
Sudden Substitution
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.
Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Teyo, the Shieldmage
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
−2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
Legendary Planeswalker - Teyo
Teyo, the Shieldmage (war) 32
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 - Giant
Towering Titan (jmp) 31

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Deck stats

30 pips - 24 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
18 pips - 16 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
24 pips - 23 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This defend tribal deck is pretty simple. Jam up the board with creatures, put down Arcades or High Alert, and beat your opponents up. If you can land Arcades early, you can chain draws and dump a lot of creatures on the board in one turn. I tend to hold Arcades back until I can defend him (with protection spells or artifacts). If your board state is left unchecked, toughness builds up very quickly.\n\nThe deck is built to have minimal combos, however there's some available\nAxebane Guardian + High Alert + 4 other defenders = Infinite Mana of every colour\nOvergrown Battlement + High Alert + 4 other defenders = Infinite green mana\nMnemonic Wall loops with any of the blink instants to generate value.\nCloudstone Curio + Arcades will allow you to draw a lot of cards,.\n\n\"Haymakers\", any these will usually end the game for one or more players in a single turn if allowed to resolve\nTriumph Of The Hordes\nTower Defense\nAssault Formation (with lots of mana)\nWall Of Faith (with lots of mana)\nTetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive\nAkroma's Will\nConcordant Crossroads (especially after casting several creatures in a turn)\n\n"}]}
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