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.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

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.

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Sunpetal Grove

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

Blind Obedience

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.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Rout

You may cast Rout as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Saltcrusted Steppe

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Saltcrusted Steppe.
{1}, Remove X storage counters from Saltcrusted Steppe: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs

Defender
{T}: Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Activate only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard.

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

Wall of Denial

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

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Ulvenwald Captive

Defender
{T}: Add {G}.
{5}{G}{G}: Transform Ulvenwald Captive.

Ulvenwald Abomination

Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination

Glacial Wall

Cryptolith Rite

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

Fortified Rampart

Smite the Monstrous

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

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.

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.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Axebane Guardian

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

Vanguard's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature each combat.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Steel Wall

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.)

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender
{G}: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Arcades Sabboth

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay {G}{W}{U}.
Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking.
{W}: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Shield Sphere

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

Oathsworn Giant

Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +0/+2 and have vigilance.

Meishin, the Mind Cage

All creatures get -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Rolling Stones

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

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.)

Meekstone

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

Consulate Skygate

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

Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Tranquil Expanse

Tranquil Expanse enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Seaside Citadel

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

Selesnya Guildgate

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

Wall of Mist

Selesnya Signet

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

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.

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

Woodland Stream

Woodland Stream enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Sundering Growth

Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Wargate

Search your library for a permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Jungle Barrier

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

Ethereal Ambush

Manifest the top two cards of your library. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Seek the Horizon

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Negate

Doorkeeper

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

Wing Shards

Target player sacrifices an attacking creature.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Thunderherd Migration

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}.
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Wall of Wood

Essence Scatter

Command Tower

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

Reveillark

Flying
When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Reliquary Tower

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

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

Swiftfoot Boots

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

Azorius Signet

Natural Connection

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

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Cancel

Blossoming Sands

Blossoming Sands enters tapped.
When Blossoming Sands enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Tranquil Cove

Tranquil Cove enters tapped.
When Tranquil Cove enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Carven Caryatid

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

Wall of Vines

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

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.

Forest

Island

Plains

Gleaming Barrier

Defender
When Gleaming Barrier dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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