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arcades
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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 (m19) 212

Commander

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Evasion

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Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach Leap of Faith — {3}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Towering Viewpoint (acr) 77

Evasion

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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
Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.) As Corrupted Shapeshifter 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
Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (onc) 68
Heroic Intervention

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

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 188
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo instead. {1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

Creature
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo (bok) 17
Safe Passage

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control this turn.

Instant
Safe Passage (m13) 30

Protection

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (ltc) 280
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
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284

Artifact

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (mkc) 247
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (mkc) 260
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (ltc) 309
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (neo) 302
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Idyllic Beachfront enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (neo) 295
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (neo) 294
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Seaside Citadel

Seaside Citadel enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (mkc) 288
Selesnya Guildgate

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

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (dgm) 155
Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (2x2) 412
Temple of Enlightenment

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.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (nec) 180
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (mom) 274
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (mom) 275
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Tranquil Landscape: 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

Land

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Pump

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Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147

Pump

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Counter

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75

Counter

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Non Defender Creature

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Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof. Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Bedrock Tortoise (lci) 176
Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Delney, Streetwise Lookout (mkm) 12
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (mul) 142
Towering Titan

Towering Titan 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
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. {G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Creature
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus (one) 195

Non Defender Creature

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Ramp

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Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (ltc) 236
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 444
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
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (ltc) 257
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129

Ramp

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Creature

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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) 296

Creature

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Non Wall Defenders

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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 (rtr) 115
Perimeter Captain

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

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender When Shield-Wall Sentinel 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
Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
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
Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191

Non Wall Defenders

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (pwar) 193
Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (mkc) 61
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (moc) 185
Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Flare of Denial (mh3) 326
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
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cmr) 387

Removal

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Enchantments

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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
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
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
Stoneskin

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

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45

Enchantments

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Planeswalker

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Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. −3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Planeswalker
Huatli, the Sun's Heart (war) 230
Teyo, Geometric Tactician

When Teyo, Geometric Tactician enters, create a 0/4 white Wall creature token with defender and flying. +1: You and target opponent each draw a card. −2: Choose left or right. Until your next turn, each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the last chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

Planeswalker
Teyo, Geometric Tactician (cmm) 725
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
The Wanderer

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control. −2: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

Planeswalker
The Wanderer (cmm) 843

Planeswalker

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Walls

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Clockwork Drawbridge

Defender {2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature Artifact
Clockwork Drawbridge (dmu) 13
Crashing Drawbridge

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

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
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
Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Glacial Wall (ice) 71
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When Mnemonic Wall enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (ima) 67
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ima) 180
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
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 Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Wall of Frost (m14) 78
Wall of Glare

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

Creature
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
Wall of Nets

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

Creature
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Omens

Defender When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90
Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Wall of Runes 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
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
Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have Wall of Stolen Identity 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 Wall of Stolen Identity.

Creature
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
Wall of Tears

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

Creature
Wall of Tears (sth) 50
Weathered Sentinels

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

Creature Artifact
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 85

Walls

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Deck Info

Deck stats

36 pips - 30 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
20 pips - 17 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
19 pips - 16 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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