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.

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.)

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.

Jungle Barrier

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

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 with defender you control.

Bamboo Grove Archer

Defender, reach
Channel — {4}{G}, Discard Bamboo Grove Archer: Destroy target creature with flying.

Drowsing Tyrannodon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
As long as you control a creature with power 4 or greater, Drowsing Tyrannodon can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Glade Watcher

Defender
Formidable — {G}: Glade Watcher can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Grave Bramble

Carven Caryatid

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

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Gatecreeper Vine

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

Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach
{4}{G}: Grappling Sundew gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

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.)

Portcullis Vine

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

Saruli Caretaker

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

Faithbound Judge

Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Faithbound Judge has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as Faithbound Judge has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb {5}{W}{W}

Sinner's Judgment

Enchant player
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a judgment counter on Sinner's Judgment. Then if there are three or more judgment counters on it, enchanted player loses the game.
If Sinner's Judgment would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment

Overgrown Battlement

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

Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield 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 the battlefield, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.
Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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 Roots

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Dazzling Ramparts

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

Flumph

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

Wall of Wood

Cathedral Membrane

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Defender
When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

Dragon's Eye Sentry

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.)

Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever Pride Guardian blocks, you gain 3 life.

Roc Egg

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Roc Egg dies, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying.

Fortified Rampart

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.)

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Soulsworn Jury

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

Order of the Stars

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
As Order of the Stars enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.

Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo instead.
{1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

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.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Wall of Essence

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

Wall of Faith

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{W}: Wall of Faith gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Wall of Omens

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

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.

Wall of Resurgence

Defender
When Wall of Resurgence enters the battlefield, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

Woolly Razorback

Woolly Razorback enters the battlefield with three ice counters on it.
As long as Woolly Razorback has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever Woolly Razorback blocks, remove an ice counter from it.

Academy Wall

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Coral Colony

Defender
{1}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Glacial Wall

Guard Gomazoa

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

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.)

Fog Bank

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank.

Gomazoa

Defender, flying
{T}: Put Gomazoa and each creature it's blocking on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle.

Hover Barrier

Guardians of Oboro

Defender
Modified creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Murmuring Phantasm

Phantasmal Abomination

Defender
When Phantasmal Abomination becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Primal Plasma

As Primal Plasma enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature, a 2/2 creature with flying, or a 1/6 creature with defender.

Riptide Turtle

Wall of Air

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

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 Mist

Wall of Lost Thoughts

Defender
When Wall of Lost Thoughts enters the battlefield, target player mills four cards.

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 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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Tower Defense

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

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.

Perimeter Captain

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

Fell the Mighty

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

Lightning Greaves

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

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Swiftfoot Boots

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

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.

Tocasia's Welcome

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

Cosmic Rebirth

Choose target permanent card in your graveyard. If it has mana value 3 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.
You gain 3 life.

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Brave the Sands

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

Stoneskin

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

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.

Meekstone

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

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Bar the Door

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

Steel Wall

Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered.
Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Seaside Citadel

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

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.)

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