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.

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible
{10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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.

Ageless Sentinels

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
When Ageless Sentinels blocks, it becomes a Bird Giant, and it loses defender. (It's no longer a Wall. This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from all colors until end of turn.

Aluren

Any player may cast creature spells with mana value 3 or less without paying their mana costs and as though they had flash.

Amaranthine Wall

Defender
{2}: Amaranthine Wall gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Animate Wall

Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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.

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.

Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Aurification

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it.
Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.)
When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.

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

Basalt Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, they create a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.

Basilica Guards

Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Bedrock Tortoise

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Brave the Sands

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

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cancel

Candletrap

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.
Coven — {2}{W}, Sacrifice Candletrap: Exile enchanted creature. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.

Charge Through

Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

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.)

Counterspell

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

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.

Dazzling Ramparts

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

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Deep Freeze

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/4, has defender, loses all other abilities, and is a blue Wall in addition to its other colors and types.

Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Eaten by Piranhas

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Expedition Lookout

Defender
As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Expedition Lookout can attack as though it didn't have defender and it can't be blocked.

Expel the Interlopers

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

Faith's Reward

Return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Fell the Mighty

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

Flumph

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

Fog Bank

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

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.)

Gift of Paradise

Enchant land
When Gift of Paradise enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Glacial Wall

Gomazoa

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

Guard Duty

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender.

Guard Gomazoa

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

Guardian of the Gateless

Flying
Guardian of the Gateless can block any number of creatures.
Whenever Guardian of the Gateless blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature it's blocking.

Hover Barrier

Illusionary Wall

Defender, flying, first strike
Cumulative upkeep {U} (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.)

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.

Jungle Barrier

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

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.)

Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield or attacks, draw a card.

Meekstone

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

Mind Spring

Mnemonic Wall

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

Negate

Nivix Barrier

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Nivix Barrier enters the battlefield, target attacking creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

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.

Perimeter Captain

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

Plains

Psychic Membrane

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Psychic Membrane blocks, you may draw a card.

Razortide Bridge

Razortide Bridge enters the battlefield tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

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.)

Rolling Stones

Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.

Sanctuary Wall

Defender
{2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature. You may put a stun counter on it. If you do, put a stun counter on Sanctuary Wall. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Sheltering Boughs

Enchant creature
When Sheltering Boughs enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender
When Shield-Wall Sentinel enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Shifting Wall

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

Shire Scarecrow

Defender
{1}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.

Sky Tether

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender and loses flying.

Skyclave Squid

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Skyclave Squid can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

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.

Sol Ring

Solidarity

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

Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Sprouting Phytohydra

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Sprouting Phytohydra is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Steel Wall

Stoneskin

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

Stuffy Doll

Indestructible
As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player.
Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.
{T}: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Sunscape Familiar

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

Surge Engine

Defender
{U}: Surge Engine loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked."
{2}{U}: Surge Engine becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if Surge Engine doesn't have defender.
{4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if Surge Engine is blue and only once.

Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Sworn Defender

{1}: Sworn Defender's power becomes the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by Sworn Defender minus 1 until end of turn, and Sworn Defender's toughness becomes 1 plus the power of that creature until end of turn.

Testament of Faith

{X}: Testament of Faith becomes an X/X Wall creature with defender in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters the battlefield 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

Thought Vessel

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

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.

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.

Tree of Redemption

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

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