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.

Plains

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Island

Selesnya Signet

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.

Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Azorius Charm

Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
• Draw a card.
• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Amaranthine Wall

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

Tree of Redemption

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

Azorius Chancery

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

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.)

Perimeter Captain

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

Seaside Citadel

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Wall of Faith

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{W}: Wall of Faith gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Mnemonic Wall

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

Obelisk of Bant

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Wall of Denial

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Meekstone

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

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Beast Within

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

Simic Signet

Vine Trellis

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

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your 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.

Condemn

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Steel Wall

Unknown Shores

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

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.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Pull from the Deep

Return up to one target instant card and up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Pull from the Deep.

Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Wall of Air

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

Shield Sphere

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

Kodama's Reach

Axebane Guardian

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

Suspicious Bookcase

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Azorius Signet

Wall of Mulch

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

Tranquil Expanse

Tranquil Expanse enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Jungle Barrier

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

Wall of Essence

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

Forest

Fog Bank

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

Bant Charm

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

Fell the Mighty

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

Guard Gomazoa

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

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.

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.

Abolish

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Shimmering Grotto

Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Back to Nature

Counterspell

Overgrown Battlement

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

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

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sunscape Familiar

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

Solar Tide

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Angelic Chorus

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

Hover Barrier

Erase

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.

Reliquary Tower

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

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.

Arasta of the Endless Web

Reach
Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach.

Yavimaya Coast

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

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.

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