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.

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Angelic Chorus

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

Plains

Island

Forest

Swords to Plowshares

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

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.

Command Tower

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

Sol Ring

Evolving Wilds

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

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

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Wall of Blossoms

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

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Temple of Mystery

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

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.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Kodama's Reach

Azorius Signet

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Reliquary Tower

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

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Fortified Area

Wall creatures you control get +1/+0 and have banding. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Temple of Enlightenment

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

Dragon's Eye Sentry

Wall of Omens

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

Counterspell

Doorkeeper

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

Asceticism

Creatures you control have hexproof.
{1}{G}: Regenerate target creature. (The next time it would be destroyed, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Farseek

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

Rampant Growth

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

Chromatic Lantern

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

Simic Guildgate

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

Hover Barrier

Simic Signet

Tower Defense

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

Azorius Guildgate

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

Selesnya Signet

Selesnya Guildgate

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

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Seaside Citadel

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

Meekstone

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

Brave the Sands

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

Amaranthine Wall

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

Gilded Lotus

Retribution of the Meek

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

Sunscape Familiar

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

Solidarity

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

Serra's Blessing

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Shield Sphere

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Leyline of Vitality

If Leyline of Vitality is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Living Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Spidersilk Armor

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

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.)

Steel Wall

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 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.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Sylvan Caryatid

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

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.

Wall of Mulch

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

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.

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.)

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Wall of Denial

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

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.

Fell the Mighty

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Glacial Fortress

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

Wall of Roots

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

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.

Tree of Redemption

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

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Swiftfoot Boots

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

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