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.

Tree of Redemption

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

Wall of Blossoms

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

Boseiju Reaches Skyward

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Put up to one target land card from your graveyard on top of your library.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Branch of Boseiju

Reach
Branch of Boseiju gets +1/+1 for each land you control.

Boseiju Reaches Skyward // Branch of Boseiju

Sol Ring

Command Tower

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

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.

Arcane Signet

Walking Bulwark

Defender
{2}: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Wall of Hope

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Hope is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

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.

Overgrown Arch

Defender
{T}: You gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Overgrown Arch: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Wall of Denial

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

Plains

Forest

Azorius Guildgate

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

Azorius Signet

Simic Signet

Azorius Charm

Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
• Draw a card.
• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Exotic Orchard

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

Kodama's Reach

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.

Evolving Wilds

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

Isolated Watchtower

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Scry 1, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only if an opponent controls at least two more lands than you.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Magebane Armor

Equipped creature gets +2/+4 and loses flying.
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to equipped creature.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {3}

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Swords to Plowshares

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

Absorb

Celestial Colonnade

Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.

Island

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Voidslime

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Steel Wall

Wakestone Gargoyle

Defender, flying
{1}{W}: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.

Ironshell Beetle

When Ironshell Beetle enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Wall of Vines

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

Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach
{4}{G}: Grappling Sundew gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Flourishing Bloom-Kin

Flourishing Bloom-Kin gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control.
Disguise {4}{G}
When Flourishing Bloom-Kin is turned face up, search your library for up to two Forest cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sylvan Caryatid

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

Vinelasher Kudzu

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Vinelasher Kudzu.

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Vigean Hydropon

Graft 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
Vigean Hydropon can't attack or block.

Whip Vine

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
You may choose not to untap Whip Vine during your untap step.
{T}: Tap target creature with flying blocked by Whip Vine. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Whip Vine remains tapped.

Jungle Barrier

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

Phytohydra

If damage would be dealt to Phytohydra, put that many +1/+1 counters on it instead.

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.

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

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.

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample
Weathered Sentinels can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever Weathered Sentinels attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Selesnya Guildgate

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

Selesnya Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
• Exile target creature with power 5 or greater.
• Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Grasslands

Grasslands enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice Grasslands: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Ecologist's Terrarium

When Ecologist's Terrarium enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ecologist's Terrarium: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Bond Beetle

When Bond Beetle enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Stag Beetle

Stag Beetle enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of other creatures on the battlefield.

Archdruid's Charm

Choose one —
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Trudge Garden

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Fog Bank

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

Kodama of the East Tree

Reach
Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of Scute Swarm instead.

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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.

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.)
Spara's Headquarters enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Flowering of the White Tree

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward {1}.
Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.

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.)

Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have Wall of Stolen Identity enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Wall of Stolen Identity.

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.)

Khalni Garden

Khalni Garden enters the battlefield tapped.
When Khalni Garden enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
{T}: Add {G}.

Fell the Mighty

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

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.

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.

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "{2}, {T}: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
Equip {3}

The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

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