Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, 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.

Beast Within

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

Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Guardian of Faith

Flash
Vigilance
When Guardian of Faith enters the battlefield, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch

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

Tower Defense

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

Plains

Wall of Ice

Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, Steward of Elements, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Counterspell

Anticipate

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Island

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}.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Grozoth

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Grozoth enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{4}: Grozoth loses defender until end of turn.
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.)

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Azorius Chancery

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

Sol Ring

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.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

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.

Towering Titan

Towering Titan enters the battlefield 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.

Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Weaver of Currents

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.

Forest

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Command Tower

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

Shield Wall

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Evolving Wilds

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

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.

Wall of Denial

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

Dictate of Kruphix

Flash
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Devastation Tide

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Seaside Citadel

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

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.

Farhaven Elf

When Farhaven Elf enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Arcane Signet

Seachrome Coast

Seachrome Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

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.

Walking Wall

Defender
{3}: Walking Wall gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only once each turn.

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.

Sphinx's Revelation

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this 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.

Kodama's Reach

Dazzling Ramparts

Defender
{1}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Meekstone

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

Recurring Insight

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Glacial Wall

Reclamation Sage

When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Wall of Mist

Mnemonic Wall

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

Luminous Bonds

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Wall of Runes enters the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Kasmina's Transmutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

Brokers Hideout

When Brokers Hideout enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

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.)

Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Destroy all creatures.

Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Bedrock Tortoise

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

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.

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

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.)

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