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.

Forest

Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice Escape Tunnel: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{T}, Sacrifice Escape Tunnel: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Meticulous Archive enters tapped.
When Meticulous Archive enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Island

Wall of Runes

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

Shield-Wall Sentinel

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Crashing Drawbridge

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

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.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Vine Trellis

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

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Axebane Guardian

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

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
{2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it 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.)

Overgrown Battlement

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

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 Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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.

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.

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Wall of Denial

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

Tower Defense

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

Hover Barrier

Brave the Sands

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

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Wingmantle Chaplain

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

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.)

Rampant Growth

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

Stoneskin

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

Fell the Mighty

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

Expel the Interlopers

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

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.

Bar the Door

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

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

Negate

Solidarity

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

Slagwurm Armor

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

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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.

Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Bant Charm

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

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