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.

Forest

Tranquil Cove

Tranquil Cove enters tapped.
When Tranquil Cove enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Island

Access Tunnel

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

Vivid Creek

Vivid Creek enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
{T}: Add {U}.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Creek: Add one mana of any color.

Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Arboreal Grazer

Reach
When Arboreal Grazer enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Shalai, Voice of Plenty

Flying
You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.
{4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

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.)

Minamo Sightbender

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

Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Evolving Wilds

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

Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters tapped.
When Temple of Enlightenment enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Irrigated Farmland enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Vivid Meadow

Vivid Meadow enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
{T}: Add {W}.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Meadow: Add one mana of any color.

Prairie Stream

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

Seaside Citadel

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

Command Tower

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

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.

Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Brave the Sands

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

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.)

Baral's Expertise

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.
You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Resolute Archangel

Flying
When Resolute Archangel enters, if your life total is less than your starting life total, it becomes equal to your starting life total.

Time Wipe

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

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.)

Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Angelic Skirmisher

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Portcullis Vine

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

Military Intelligence

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

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.

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.

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.

Coral Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Coral Barrier enters, create a 1/1 blue Squid creature token with islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Simic Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
• Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach 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.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Sylvan Scrying

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

Overrule

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. You gain X life.

Thornwood Falls

Thornwood Falls enters tapped.
When Thornwood Falls enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Blossoming Sands

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

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

Fruit of the First Tree

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is its toughness.

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.)

Oppressive Rays

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays {3}.
Activated abilities of enchanted creature cost {3} more to activate.

Valorous Stance

Choose one —
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Guardians of Meletis

Wall of Frost

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

Consulate Skygate

Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Flumph

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

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Negate

Aligned Hedron Network

When Aligned Hedron Network enters, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

Give No Ground

Target creature gets +2/+6 until end of turn and can block any number of creatures this turn.

Wall of Essence

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

Wall of Denial

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

Disenchant

Axebane Guardian

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

Drogskol Shieldmate

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Drogskol Shieldmate enters, other creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Supreme Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Devouring Light

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.)
Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

Runed Halo

As Runed Halo enters, choose a card name.
You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Geist of the Lonely Vigil

Defender, flying
Delirium — Geist of the Lonely Vigil can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

Archetype of Courage

Creatures you control have first strike.
Creatures your opponents control lose first strike and can't have or gain first strike.

Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Displacement Wave

Return all nonland permanents with mana value X or less to their owners' hands.

Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Aegis of the Gods

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Floriferous Vinewall

Defender
When Floriferous Vinewall enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Cathedral Membrane

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Defender
When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Sunscape Familiar

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

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.

Wall of Glare

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

Banishing Light

When Banishing Light enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Banishing Light leaves the battlefield.

Fell the Mighty

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

Make a Stand

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

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.

Cloudfin Raptor

Flying
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Destiny Spinner

Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered.
{3}{G}: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.

Plains

Wall of Mulch

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

Sejiri Refuge

Sejiri Refuge enters tapped.
When Sejiri Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Guard Gomazoa.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When Wingmantle Chaplain 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.

Idyllic Grange

({T}: Add {W}.)
Idyllic Grange enters tapped unless you control three or more other Plains.
When Idyllic Grange enters untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Fog Bank

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank.

Abundant Growth

Enchant land
When Abundant Growth enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

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