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.

Plains

Forest

Island

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Vanguard's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature each combat.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Guard Gomazoa

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Access Tunnel

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

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.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

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.)

Spidersilk Armor

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Vine Trellis

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

Wall of Ice

Command Tower

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

Seaside Citadel

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

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.)

Brave the Sands

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

Prairie Stream

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

Stoneskin

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

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Carven Caryatid

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

Bar the Door

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

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Flumph

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

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.)

Tree of Redemption

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

Webspinner Cuff

Reach
Equipped creature gets +1/+4 and has reach.
Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Overgrown Battlement

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

Wall of Denial

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

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.

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

Wall of Glare

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

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Axebane Guardian

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

Jungle Barrier

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

Beast Within

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

Generous Gift

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

Fortified Rampart

Heroic Intervention

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

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.

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.

Ajani, the Greathearted

Creatures you control have vigilance.
+1: You gain 3 life.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Aegis of the Heavens

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

Sol Ring

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.

Sunscape Familiar

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

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.

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.

Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

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.

Kodama's Reach

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.

Tower Defense

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

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Glacial Wall

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.

Wall of Essence

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

Wall of Frost

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

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.

Hover Barrier

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

Ascend from Avernus

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Wall of Hope

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

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.

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