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.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Plains

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Arcane Signet

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

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.

Beast Within

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

Bovine Intervention

Destroy target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 2/2 white Ox creature token.

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

Command Tower

Consulate Skygate

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

Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.)
As Corrupted Shapeshifter enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.

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.)

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Excavated Wall

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

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Fell the Mighty

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

Flumph

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

Fog Bank

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

Forest

Fortified Rampart

Generous Gift

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

Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Glacial Wall

Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Hedge Maze enters tapped.
When Hedge Maze enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Heroic Intervention

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

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.

Hover Barrier

Island

Jaddi Offshoot

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

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.

Kodama's Reach

Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When Orator of Ojutai enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Overgrown Battlement

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

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.

Perimeter Captain

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

Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

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.)

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.

Sanctuary Wall

Defender
{2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature. You may put a stun counter on it. If you do, put a stun counter on Sanctuary Wall. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Seaside Citadel

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

Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

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.

Sol Ring

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.

Steel Wall

Swords to Plowshares

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

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Temple of Plenty

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

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.

Thornwood Falls

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

Tranquil Cove

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

Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Tranquil Landscape: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Vine Trellis

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

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.

Wall of Denial

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

Wall of Essence

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

Wall of Glare

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

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.)

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.

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

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 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 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.)

Wall of Tanglecord

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

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.

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