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.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Tree of Redemption

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

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 Roots

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

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Glacial Fortress

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

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.

Wall of Denial

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

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, 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.

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 of your library.)

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.

Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Fortified Village

As Fortified Village enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Fortified Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Port Town

As Port Town enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

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.

Vine Trellis

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

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.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Breeding Pool

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

Axebane Guardian

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

Temple Garden

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

Leyline of Vitality

If Leyline of Vitality is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Primal Rage

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

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.)

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.)

Sunscape Familiar

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

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 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.

Shield Sphere

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

Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Consulate Skygate

Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Selesnya Signet

Hallowed Fountain

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

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.)

Tower Defense

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

Simic Signet

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance.
When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Jungle Barrier

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

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Rampant Growth

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

Nature's Lore

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

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.)

Farseek

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

Guard Gomazoa

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

Doorkeeper

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

Wall of Omens

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

Riptide Turtle

Arcane Signet

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

Command Tower

Sol Ring

Prairie Stream

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

Reliquary Tower

Krosan Verge

Krosan Verge enters the battlefield 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.

Canopy Vista

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

Lightning Greaves

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

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.

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 Blossoms

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

Island

Carven Caryatid

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

Overgrown Battlement

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

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.

Towering Titan

Towering Titan enters the battlefield 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.

Forest

Plains

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Brave the Sands

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

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