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.

Palace Jailer

When Palace Jailer enters, you become the monarch.
When Palace Jailer enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Seachrome Coast

Seachrome Coast enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Counterspell

Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Wooded Foothills: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Celestial Colonnade

Celestial Colonnade enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

Spell Snare

Blink of an Eye

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Force Spike

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Swan Song

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

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Carven Caryatid

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

Horizon Canopy

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Horizon Canopy: Draw a card.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}.
{G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Sunpetal Grove

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

Stirring Wildwood

Stirring Wildwood enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

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.

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, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Birds of Paradise

Negate

Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Wall of Mulch

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Wall of Denial

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

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 Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Temple Garden

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

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Breeding Pool

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

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.

Tree of Redemption

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

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Razorverge Thicket

Razorverge Thicket enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Forest

Glacial Fortress

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

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.

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Hallowed Fountain

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

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.")

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mana Tithe

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Flagstones of Trokair

{T}: Add {W}.
When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Command Tower

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

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

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."

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Shield Sphere

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

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Botanical Sanctum

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

Reclamation Sage

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Overgrown Battlement

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

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.)

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Hinterland Harbor

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

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Plains

Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

Island

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four 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.)
Target player draws three cards.

Treetop Village

Treetop Village enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Axebane Guardian

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Parallax Wave

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature.
When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Wave.

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Vine Trellis

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

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Join Shields

Untap all creatures you control. They gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

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