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.

Academy Wall

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Alabaster Wall

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

Defender of the Order

Morph {W}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Defender of the Order is turned face up, creatures you control get +0/+2 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.

Basilica Guards

Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Benevolent Ancestor

Bonded Fetch

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

Candletrap

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.
Coven — {2}{W}, Sacrifice Candletrap: Exile enchanted creature. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.

Carven Caryatid

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

Deep Freeze

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/4, has defender, loses all other abilities, and is a blue Wall in addition to its other colors and types.

Defender en-Vec

Fading 4 (This creature enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Defender en-Vec: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

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.

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

Crude Rampart

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Morph {4}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Dazzling Ramparts

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

Coral Colony

Defender
{1}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Doorkeeper

Defender
{2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Dragon's Eye Sentry

Fertilid

Fertilid enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Fertilid: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Wall of Essence

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

Wall of Hope

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

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.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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

Perimeter Captain

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

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.)

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.

Mnemonic Wall

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

Wall of Roots

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

Overgrown Battlement

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

Wall of Mulch

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

Jungle Barrier

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

Wall of Denial

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

Shifting Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Shifting Wall enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Suspicious Bookcase

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

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample
Weathered Sentinels can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever Weathered Sentinels attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

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.

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.

Valor Made Real

Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn.

Wall of Glare

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

Wall of Vines

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

Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Walking Bulwark

Defender
{2}: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Steel Wall

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.

Hover Barrier

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.)

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.

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.

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Swords to Plowshares

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

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets.
When Wall of Nets leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with Wall of Nets to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Counterspell

Edge of Autumn

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Plains

Island

Command Tower

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sol Ring

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Wanderer's Twig

{1}, Sacrifice Wanderer's Twig: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Renegade Map

Renegade Map enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice Renegade Map: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

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

Grow from the Ashes

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters tapped.
When Gateway Plaza enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Bar the Door

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

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.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Negate

Bant Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.

Solidarity

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

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.

Aegis of the Heavens

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

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.)

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.

Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Lotus Field

Hexproof
Lotus Field enters tapped.
When Lotus Field enters, sacrifice two lands.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Vine Trellis

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When Sporocyst enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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