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.

Shifting Grift

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {2} — Exchange control of two target creatures.
+ {1} — Exchange control of two target artifacts.
+ {1} — Exchange control of two target enchantments.

Defensive Formation

Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.

Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Sol Ring

Archangel of Tithes

Flying
As long as Archangel of Tithes is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.
As long as Archangel of Tithes is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Commander's Sphere

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Amaranthine Wall

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

Carnivorous Plant

Carven Caryatid

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

Dazzling Ramparts

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

Clinging Anemones

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

Coastal Bulwark

Defender
Coastal Bulwark gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Island.
{2}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible
{10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Consulate Skygate

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

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.)

Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

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.)

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.

Axebane Guardian

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

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.

Backstreet Bruiser

Defender
As long as there are two or more counters among creatures you control, Backstreet Bruiser can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Bamboo Grove Archer

Defender, reach
Channel — {4}{G}, Discard Bamboo Grove Archer: Destroy target creature with flying.

Foriysian Interceptor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
Foriysian Interceptor can block an additional creature each combat.

Fortified Rampart

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.

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.)

Gelid Shackles

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
{S}: Enchanted creature gains defender until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Glacial Wall

Doorkeeper

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

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "{2}, {T}: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
Equip {3}

Dragon's Eye Sentry

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.)

Excavated Wall

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

Expedition Lookout

Defender
As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Expedition Lookout can attack as though it didn't have defender and it can't be blocked.

Faithbound Judge

Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Faithbound Judge has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as Faithbound Judge has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb {5}{W}{W}

Sinner's Judgment

Enchant player
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a judgment counter on Sinner's Judgment. Then if there are three or more judgment counters on it, enchanted player loses the game.
If Sinner's Judgment would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment

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.

Flumph

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

Fog Bank

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

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.

Jungle Barrier

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

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.

Haunted Guardian

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.

Junktroller

Defender
{T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Hover Barrier

Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Infested Roothold

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Protection from artifacts
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, you may create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Jaddi Offshoot

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

Minamo Scrollkeeper

Defender
Your maximum hand size is increased by one.

Nivix Barrier

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Nivix Barrier enters, target attacking creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

Ludevic's Abomination

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: Golden Guardian fights another target creature you control. When Golden Guardian dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach
{4}{G}: Grappling Sundew gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Gomazoa

Defender, flying
{T}: Put Gomazoa and each creature it's blocking on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle.

Grozoth

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Grozoth enters, 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.)

Guard Duty

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender.

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.)

Guard Gomazoa

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

Guardians of Meletis

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.)

Riptide Turtle

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.

Secret Door

Defender
{4}{U}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

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.

Shifting Wall

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

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Mindbender Spores

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Whenever Mindbender Spores blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature."

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.)

Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo instead.
{1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

Mnemonic Wall

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

Murmuring Phantasm

Overgrown Battlement

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

Peregrine Mask

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike.
Equip {2}

Perimeter Captain

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

Plumeveil

Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever Pride Guardian blocks, you gain 3 life.

Primal Clay

As Primal Clay enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Primal Plasma

As Primal Plasma enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature, a 2/2 creature with flying, or a 1/6 creature with defender.

Psychic Membrane

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Psychic Membrane blocks, you may draw a card.

Snow Fortress

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{1}: Snow Fortress gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{1}: Snow Fortress gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
{3}: Snow Fortress deals 1 damage to target creature without flying that's attacking you.

Soulsworn Jury

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{1}{U}, Sacrifice Soulsworn Jury: Counter target creature spell.

Soulbound Guardians

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.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Sprouting Phytohydra

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Sprouting Phytohydra is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra.

Sunscape Familiar

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

Surge Engine

Defender
{U}: Surge Engine loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked."
{2}{U}: Surge Engine becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if Surge Engine doesn't have defender.
{4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if Surge Engine is blue and only once.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Testament of Faith

{X}: Testament of Faith becomes an X/X Wall creature with defender in addition to its other types until end of turn.

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.

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
{2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Ulvenwald Captive

Defender
{T}: Add {G}.
{5}{G}{G}: Transform Ulvenwald Captive.

Ulvenwald Abomination

Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination

Teyo, Geometric Tactician

When Teyo, Geometric Tactician enters, create a 0/4 white Wall creature token with defender and flying.
+1: You and target opponent each draw a card.
−2: Choose left or right. Until your next turn, each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the last chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.
Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thunder Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
{U}: Thunder Wall gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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