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 Denial

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

Sol Ring

Hover Barrier

Arcane Signet

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Command Tower

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Beast Within

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Negate

Sunpetal Grove

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

Azorius Chancery

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

Green Sun's Twilight

Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.)

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Fortified Rampart

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.)

Hengegate Pathway

Mistgate Pathway

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When Gatecreeper Vine enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Wall of Mist

Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Stoneskin

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

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

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Fell the Mighty

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

Counterspell

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.

Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

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.

Bant Charm

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

Overgrown Battlement

Defender
{T}: Add {G} for each creature 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.

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.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

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.

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.

Canopy Vista

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

Prairie Stream

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Seaside Citadel

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

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.

Doorkeeper

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

Vine Trellis

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

Secret Door

Defender
{4}{U}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Mnemonic Wall

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

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.

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.

Bar the Door

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

Wall of Frost

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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.

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."

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat.
+1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step.
0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike.
−4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.)
Spara's Headquarters enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Glacial Fortress

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

Meekstone

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

Guard Gomazoa

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

Always Watching

Nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Brave the Sands

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

Aura Shards

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

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.

Shield Sphere

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

Plains

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

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.

Forest

Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
{G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Island

Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Tree of Redemption

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

Song of Freyalise

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.

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