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.

Vine Trellis

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

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.

Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile Campfire: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Amaranthine Wall

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

Tamiyo, Field Researcher

+1: Choose up to two target creatures. Until your next turn, whenever either of those creatures deals combat damage, you draw a card.
−2: Tap up to two target nonland permanents. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
−7: Draw three cards. You get an emblem with "You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs."

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.

Phalanx Formation

Strive — This spell costs {1}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

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.

Wall of Essence

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

Said

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Done

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

Said // Done

Branchloft Pathway

Boulderloft Pathway

Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Gauntlets of Light

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Enchanted creature has "{2}{W}: Untap this creature."

Fortified Rampart

Jungle Barrier

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

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.

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Flumph

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

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.

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.

Fell the Mighty

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

Wall of Frost

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

Riptide Turtle

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.

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.

Crenellated Wall

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Bar the Door

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

Glacial Wall

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.

Unnatural Growth

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

Join Shields

Untap all creatures you control. They gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Wall of Denial

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

Tower Defense

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Builder's Blessing

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Rasaad yn Bashir

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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.)

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.)

Carven Caryatid

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

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.

Dazzling Ramparts

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

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

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.

Aarakocra Sneak

Flying
When Aarakocra Sneak enters, you take the initiative.

Winged Words

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.

Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters, you take the initiative.
{T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead.
{3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Doorkeeper

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Brave the Sands

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

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.

Weave Fate

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.)

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.

Command Tower

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

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.)

Divination

Stoneskin

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

Brokers Hideout

When Brokers Hideout enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Mnemonic Wall

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

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.

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