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.

Island

Seaside Citadel

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

Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters tapped.
When Temple of Plenty enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Krosan Verge

Krosan Verge enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Krosan Verge: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Graypelt Refuge

Graypelt Refuge enters tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Evolving Wilds

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

Grasslands

Grasslands enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice Grasslands: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Fortified Rampart

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Steel Wall

Command Tower

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

Tree of Redemption

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

Shield Sphere

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

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.)

Hover Barrier

Botanical Sanctum

Botanical Sanctum enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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.

Naya Panorama

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Wall of Ice

Sejiri Refuge

Sejiri Refuge enters tapped.
When Sejiri Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Irrigated Farmland enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wall of Mist

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Forest

Plains

Beastcaller Savant

Haste
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Return to the Ranks

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Return X target creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

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.

Wall of Essence

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

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tower Defense

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

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.)

Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Birds of Paradise

Wall of Glare

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

Saruli Caretaker

Defender
{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Selesnya Signet

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Wall of Hope

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

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Perimeter Captain

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

Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Farseek

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

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.

Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Reclamation Sage

When Reclamation Sage enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Mnemonic Wall

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

Wall of Frost

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

Heroic Intervention

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

Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Arcane Signet

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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.

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.

Wall of Denial

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

Axebane Guardian

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

Vine Trellis

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

Fell the Mighty

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

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.

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Tears blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.

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.

Jungle Barrier

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Azorius Signet

Sunscape Familiar

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

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.")

Doorkeeper

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

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.)

Murmuring Phantasm

Concordant Crossroads

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.

Colfenor's Urn

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

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.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Serra's Blessing

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
{2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Primal Rage

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

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.

Nylea, God of the Hunt

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Other creatures you control have trample.
{3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Counterspell

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Ascend from Avernus

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Idol of Endurance

When Idol of Endurance enters, exile all creature cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard until Idol of Endurance leaves the battlefield.
{1}{W}, {T}: Until end of turn, you may cast a creature spell from among cards exiled with Idol of Endurance without paying its mana cost.

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