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.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Arcane Signet

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

Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Resolute Watchdog

Defender
{1}, Sacrifice Resolute Watchdog: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Wall of Glare

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

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.)

Steel Wall

Angelic Shield

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When Orator of Ojutai enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Azorius Signet

Sol Ring

Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

Command Tower

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

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.

Forest

Plains

Island

Hengegate Pathway

Mistgate Pathway

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway

Barkchannel Pathway

Tidechannel Pathway

Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Simic Signet

Beast Within

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

Rampant Growth

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

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.

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.

Counterspell

Generous Gift

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

Reliquary Tower

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

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.)

Rejuvenating Springs

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

Lightning Greaves

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

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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.)

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Prairie Stream

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

Riptide Turtle

Mnemonic Wall

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

Jungle Barrier

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.

Farseek

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

Hover Barrier

Tower Defense

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

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.

Breeding Pool

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

Hallowed Fountain

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

Selesnya Signet

Temple Garden

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

Seaside Citadel

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

Brave the Sands

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

Shield Sphere

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

Wall of Junk

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

Meekstone

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Bar the Door

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

Axebane Guardian

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When Gatecreeper Vine enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Wall of Mulch

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

Vine Trellis

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

Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When Jeskai Barricade enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Fortified Rampart

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Wall of Denial

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

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Dawn

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Return all creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Dusk // Dawn

Fell the Mighty

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Glacial Fortress

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

Wall of Roots

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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.

Cosmic Intervention

If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Foretell {1}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

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