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Defense is the Best Offence
Deck Size: 50
Commander
Est deck cost: $107.70
Salt sum: 9.5
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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 (plst) M19-212

Commander

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Draw

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Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Bonded Fetch (tsr) 54
Carven Caryatid

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

Creature
Carven Caryatid (jmp) 382
Flumph

Defender, flying Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
Geist of the Archives

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Jungle Barrier

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

Creature
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
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
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Creature
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher (acr) 121
Teyo, Geometric Tactician

When Teyo 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
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (plst) STH-125
Wall of Mourning

Defender When this creature enters, exile a card from the top of your library face down for each opponent you have. Coven — At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, put a card exiled with this creature into its owner's hand.

Creature
Wall of Mourning (mic) 10
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90

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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. {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 (plst) IMA-155
Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crenellated Wall (plst) MMQ-290
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (blc) 245

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Anthem

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Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Tuktuk Rubblefort

Defender, reach Creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Tuktuk Rubblefort (znr) 173

Anthem

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Evasion

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Assassin Den

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {3}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It can't be blocked this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Assassin Den (acr) 281
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177

Evasion

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Ramp

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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 (plst) RTR-115
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Defender Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sporocyst (40k) 98
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319

Ramp

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Artifact

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Peregrine Mask

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike. Equip {2}

Artifact
Peregrine Mask (rav) 268

Artifact

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Finisher

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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
Towering Titan (jmp) 31

Finisher

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Removal

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (blc) 138
Expel the Interlopers

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

Sorcery
Expel the Interlopers (woe) 13
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (mkc) 65
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch (bok) 39

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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
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13

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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
Perimeter Captain (plst) WWK-16
Tree of Redemption

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

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature
Wall of Reverence (uma) 41

Lifegain

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Tokens

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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
Hornet Nest (scd) 189
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
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

Tokens

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Creature

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Manor Gargoyle

Defender This creature has indestructible as long as it has defender. {1}: Until end of turn, this creature loses defender and gains flying.

Creature Artifact
Manor Gargoyle (isd) 228
Monastery Flock

Defender, flying Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Monastery Flock (ktk) 47
Murmuring Phantasm

Defender

Creature
Murmuring Phantasm (jmp) 157

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Protection

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Amaranthine Wall

Defender {2}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact
Amaranthine Wall (dom) 210
Crashing Drawbridge

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

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (cmm) 944
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature
Glacial Wall (ema) 53
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
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
Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
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

Protection

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Untap

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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

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 17 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
14 pips - 14 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
1 pip - 1 card0
0 mana - 2 cards
21 pips - 16 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
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