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.

Stoneskin

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

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Tree of Redemption

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Forest

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Fell the Mighty

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

Seaside Citadel

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Shield Sphere

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.

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.

Command Tower

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

Masako the Humorless

Flash
Tapped creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.

And They Shall Know No Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn.

Wall of Glare

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

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.

Wall of Essence

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

Guard Gomazoa

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

Wall of Hope

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

Seedborn Muse

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

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Elephant

Wall

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Give No Ground

Target creature gets +2/+6 until end of turn and can block any number of creatures this turn.

Glacial Wall

Hold the Line

Blocking creatures get +7/+7 until end of turn.

Hover Barrier

Axebane Guardian

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

Builder's Blessing

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Psychic Membrane

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

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.)

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.

Castle

Quicksilver Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{4}: Return Quicksilver Wall to its owner's hand. Any player may activate this ability.

Wall of Brambles

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{G}: Regenerate Wall of Brambles.

Wall of Pine Needles

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{G}: Regenerate Wall of Pine Needles.

Baton of Morale

{2}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Living Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Amaranthine Wall

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

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.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

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.)

Angelic Chorus

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

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.

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.

Tower Defense

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

Righteousness

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Fog Bank

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

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Negate

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.

Woodland Stream

Woodland Stream enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Marshal's Anthem

Multikicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Marshal's Anthem enters, return up to X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of times Marshal's Anthem was kicked.

Meandering River

Meandering River enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Yavimaya Coast

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

Island

Plains

Evolving Wilds

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

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Wall of Denial

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

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Spidersilk Armor

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

Brave the Sands

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

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.

Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Sol Ring

Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Generous Gift

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Warped Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Warped Landscape: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Overgrown Battlement

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

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