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Arcades
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $292.74
Salt sum: 28.63
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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.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (tsr) 371

Commander

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Finisher

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Solidarity

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

Instant
Solidarity (uds) 20
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (mul) 12
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147

Finisher

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Removal

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (clb) 691
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (40k) 186
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (dmc) 100
Marble Titan

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Creature
Marble Titan (tmp) 28
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (4ed) 335
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mm3) 17
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 (clb) 43
Soulsworn Jury

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target creature spell.

Creature
Soulsworn Jury (dis) 17
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cmr) 387
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 "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
The Battle of Bywater (ltr) 2

Removal

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B plan

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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 (ima) 155
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 (rna) 182

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Land

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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
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Brushland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Brushland (bro) 259
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (ncc) 389
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (nec) 167
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (onc) 152
Flooded Strand

{T}, 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) 353
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 401
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (who) 285
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mkm) 279
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: 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 (onc) 161
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dmu) 262
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (afc) 256
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 662
Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (afc) 258
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (afc) 261
Sungrass Prairie

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Sungrass Prairie (afc) 264
Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Treva's Ruins

When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Treva's Ruins (pls) 143
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 382

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Defenders

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Crashing Drawbridge

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

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
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
Excavated Wall

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

Creature Artifact
Excavated Wall (stx) 255
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Perimeter Captain

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

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
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
Sprouting Phytohydra

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Sprouting Phytohydra (dis) 95
Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Steel Wall (mrd) 248
Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (snc) 245
Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (isd) 207
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
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (arb) 16
Wall of Glare

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

Creature
Wall of Glare (uds) 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 of Junk (usg) 315
Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Creature
Wall of Kelp (hml) 40
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.)

Creature
Wall of Shards (csp) 23
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
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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Protection

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1. Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Angelic Shield (ddi) 27
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 (khc) 22
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 (rvr) 19
Lae'zel's Acrobatics

Exile all nontoken creatures you control, then roll a d20. 1—9 | Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. 10—20 | Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control, then exile them again. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Lae'zel's Acrobatics (clb) 30
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
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
Robe of Stars

Equipped creature gets +0/+3. Astral Projection — {1}{W}: Equipped creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Robe of Stars (afc) 11
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 (cmm) 834
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c14) 275

Protection

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Draw

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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
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
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
Orator of Ojutai (f15) 9
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) 352
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Mulch (ons) 298
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 344

Draw

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
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 (rtr) 115
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (m13) 170
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c15) 254
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (afc) 164
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (cmm) 908
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Vine Trellis

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

Creature
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285

Ramp

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Sideboard

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Ascend from Avernus

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Sorcery
Ascend from Avernus (clb) 554
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (mkc) 248
Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (mic) 133
Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (ktk) 5
Colfenor's Urn

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it. At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with this artifact, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Artifact
Colfenor's Urn (lrw) 254
Conclave's Blessing

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 for each other creature you control.

Enchantment
Conclave's Blessing (rav) 11
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
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
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
Dragon's Eye Sentry

Defender, first strike

Creature
Dragon's Eye Sentry (dtk) 11
Eland Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+4. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Eland Umbra (roe) 19
Faithbound Judge

Creature
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
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 (c14) 110
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 (c13) 45
Heroic Intervention

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

Instant
Heroic Intervention (who) 476
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 (m15) 177
Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered. Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Last March of the Ents (ltr) 172
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (cmm) 398
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (2x2) 17
Mindbender Spores

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Whenever this creature blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature."

Creature
Mindbender Spores (mir) 229
Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature." Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mirror Shield (thb) 234
Odric, Lunarch Marshal

At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.

Creature
Odric, Lunarch Marshal (dmc) 103
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
Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment
Primal Rage (sth) 112
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (cmr) 535
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c15) 268
Solar Tide

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less. • Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Solar Tide (mrd) 24
Spectral Shield

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can't be the target of spells.

Enchantment
Spectral Shield (ice) 302
Spidersilk Armor

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Enchantment
Spidersilk Armor (mmq) 273
Stoneskin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Surge of Salvation

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

Instant
Surge of Salvation (mom) 41
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.

Planeswalker
Teyo, the Shieldmage (war) 32
Treefolk Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Treefolk Umbra (mh1) 185
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 (m10) 80
Wall of Ice

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Wall of Ice (4ed) 283
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 Tanglecord

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

Creature Artifact
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222

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Maybeboard

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Concerted Effort

At the beginning of each upkeep, creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if a creature you control has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, landwalk, protection, trample, and vigilance.

Enchantment
Concerted Effort (rav) 8
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.)

Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79

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Deck Info

Deck stats

35 pips - 30 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
11 pips - 10 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
14 pips - 14 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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