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.

Tree of Redemption

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

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.

Jungle Barrier

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

Glacial Fortress

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

Condemn

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

Wall of Denial

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

Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

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.)

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.

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.

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}

Reviving Melody

Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mnemonic Wall

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

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Wall of Frost

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

Doorkeeper

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

Axebane Guardian

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

Bar the Door

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Soulsworn Jury

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

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.)

Congregation at Dawn

Search your library for up to three creature cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Marble Titan

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

Solidarity

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

Wall of Air

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

Amaranthine Wall

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

Brave the Sands

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

Seaside Citadel

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

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.

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.)

Tower Defense

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

Hover Barrier

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Mana Geode

When Mana Geode enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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.)

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Brought Back

Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.

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.)

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.

Sol Ring

Exotic Orchard

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

Commander's Sphere

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

Command Tower

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Lay of the Land

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.)

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Negate

Guard Gomazoa

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

Fog Bank

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

Counterspell

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Swords to Plowshares

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

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Forest

Arcane Signet

Migration Path

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Heroic Intervention

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

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Island

Plains

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.

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Triumph of the Hordes

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

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.)

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