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.

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

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

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.

Axebane Guardian

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

Azorius Signet

Bant Charm

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

Bar the Door

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

Blossoming Sands

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

Brave the Sands

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

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{G}, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Wall of Roots

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

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 Tanglecord

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

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.

Woodland Stream

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

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender
{T}: Creatures you control gain haste 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.

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Evolving Wilds

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

Farseek

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

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.

Forest

Fortified Rampart

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When Gatecreeper Vine enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, 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.)

Glacial Wall

Graypelt Refuge

Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

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.

Hover Barrier

Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
−3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Island

Jaddi Offshoot

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

Jungle Barrier

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

Jwari Disruption

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Jwari Ruins

Jwari Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins

Mnemonic Wall

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

Naturalize

Negate

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Rampant Growth

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

Seaside Citadel

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

Selesnya Guildgate

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

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.

Simic Guildgate

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

Simic Signet

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.

Solidarity

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Steel Wall

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
−2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

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.

Thornwood Falls

Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield tapped.
When Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Tower Defense

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

Treefolk Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Vine Trellis

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

Wall of Blossoms

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

Wall of Denial

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

Wall of Essence

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

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 Hope

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

Wall of Ice

Wall of Mist

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.

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Irrigated Farmland enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Glacial Fortress

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

Plains

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast.
{3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

Stoneskin

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

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.

Baldin, Century Herdmaster

As long as it's your turn, each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Whenever Baldin, Century Herdmaster attacks, up to one hundred target creatures each get +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

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