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.)

Abzan Beastmaster

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.

Axebane Guardian

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

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.)

Phyrexian Walker

Shield Sphere

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

Selesnya Locket

{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{G/W}{G/W}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}, Sacrifice Selesnya Locket: Draw two cards.

Passwall Adept

{2}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this 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.

Scuttlegator

Defender
{6}{G/U}{G/U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)
As long as Scuttlegator has a +1/+1 counter on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Tower Defense

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

Saruli Caretaker

Defender
{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Fountain of Ichor

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{3}: Fountain of Ichor becomes a 3/3 Dinosaur artifact creature until end of turn.

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.)

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.

Simic Locket

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}, {T}, Sacrifice Simic Locket: Draw two cards.

Mnemonic Wall

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

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.

Nylea's Forerunner

Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.

Monstrous Step

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn. Up to one other target creature blocks it this turn if able.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Humble Naturalist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Mystic Subdual

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0 and loses all abilities. (Mutating onto the creature won't give it new abilities. It can gain abilities in other ways.)

Drowsing Tyrannodon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
As long as you control a creature with power 4 or greater, Drowsing Tyrannodon can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Swift Response

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.)

Portcullis Vine

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

Overgrown Battlement

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

Gargoyle Sentinel

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{3}: Until end of turn, Gargoyle Sentinel loses defender and gains flying.

Pacifism

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Suspicious Bookcase

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

Aegis Turtle

Gleaming Barrier

Defender
When Gleaming Barrier dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Scale the Heights

Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Deliberate

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast.
{3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Pressure Point

Sylvan Reclamation

Exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

Adventurous Impulse

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Excavated Wall

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

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.

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.

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Azorius Locket

{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}, {T}, Sacrifice Azorius Locket: Draw two cards.

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Negate

Blight Herder

When you cast this spell, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Manor Gargoyle

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

Ornithopter

Amaranthine Wall

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

Wall of Mist

Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

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.

Evolving Wilds

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

Jungle Barrier

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

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Benevolent Ancestor

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Riptide Turtle

Omen of the Hunt

Flash
When Omen of the Hunt enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{2}{G}, Sacrifice Omen of the Hunt: Scry 2.

Burlfist Oak

Whenever you draw a card, Burlfist Oak gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Cancel

Blossoming Sands

Blossoming Sands enters tapped.
When Blossoming Sands enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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.

Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Simic Guildgate

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

Bonded Fetch

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

Access Tunnel

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

Sungrass Prairie

Forest

Island

Plains

Command Tower

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

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.

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