Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, 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.

Aether Hub

When Aether Hub enters the battlefield, you get {E} (an energy counter).
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay {E}: Add one mana of any color.

Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice Angelic Shield: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Arcane Signet

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

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.

Axebane Guardian

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

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Azorius Signet

Bant Charm

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

Bar the Door

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

Beast Within

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Cloudcrest Lake

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Cloudcrest Lake doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Command Tower

Cosmic Intervention

If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Foretell {1}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Doorkeeper

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

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.)

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

Edge of Autumn

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Evolving Wilds

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

Excavated Wall

Defender
{1}, {T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Exotic Orchard

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

Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

Flumph

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

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

Forest

Generous Gift

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

Giant's Amulet

When Giant's Amulet enters the battlefield, you may pay {3}{U}. If you do, create a 4/4 blue Giant Wizard creature token, then attach Giant's Amulet to it.
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped." (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {2}

Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Glacial Floodplain enters the battlefield tapped.

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.

Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Island

Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When Jeskai Barricade enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Marble Titan

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

Meekstone

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, 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 the battlefield, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Overgrown Arch

Defender
{T}: You gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Overgrown Arch: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Overgrown Battlement

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

Paradise Druid

Paradise Druid has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Plains

Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Quirion Elves

As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Rampant Growth

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

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.)

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.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Saruli Caretaker

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

Saw It Coming

Counter target spell.
Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Seaside Citadel

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

Secret Door

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

Semester's End

Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Shifting Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Skycloud Expanse

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.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Steel Wall

Sunscape Familiar

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

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters the battlefield tapped.
As Thriving Heath enters the battlefield, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters the battlefield tapped.
As Thriving Isle enters the battlefield, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Tower Defense

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

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Ulvenwald Captive

Defender
{T}: Add {G}.
{5}{G}{G}: Transform Ulvenwald Captive.

Ulvenwald Abomination

Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination

Vine Trellis

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Wall of Denial

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

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.)

Wall of Mulch

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Wall of Roots

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

Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Wall of Runes enters the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Wall of Shards

Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Wall of Tanglecord

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

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