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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $79.99
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.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Arcades, the Strategist (pm19) 212s
Color tag templates(None)
$79.99 $55.53

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.65

Anthem

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Draw

Qty: 14 Price: $38.42
Consulate Skygate
Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Consulate Skygate (kld) 202
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Orator of Ojutai
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When this creature enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.
Creature - Bird Monk
Orator of Ojutai (dtk) 28
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (grn) 142
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
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.)
Legendary Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Color tag templates(None)
$13.99 $11.68
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Color tag templates(None)
$9.99 $9.89
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (mrd) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
The Pride of Hull Clade
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.78
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (sth) 125
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $5.21
Wall of Junk
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Wall of Junk (usg) 315
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.55
Wall of Kelp
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Kelp (hml) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $2.48
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (ons) 298
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (ema) 34
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.34
Wall of Runes
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Runes (war) 75
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Wall of Tanglecord
Defender
: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.39

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $1.05
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (dsc) 95
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Towering Viewpoint
Defender, reach
Leap of Faith —
: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Towering Viewpoint (acr) 77
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $103.80
Alchemist's Refuge
: Add
.
,
: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Alchemist's Refuge (lcc) 318
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.42
Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (clu) 230
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.13
Bant Panorama
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Bant Panorama (ncc) 387
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.36
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $13.73
Canopy Vista
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (tdc) 343
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.34
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (tdm) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.15
Flooded Grove
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (tdc) 364
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.31
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Color tag templates(None)
$21.99 $14.38
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tdm) 285
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.17
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (tdc) 367
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.29
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $11.60
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (tdc) 371
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.35
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (tdc) 372
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.19
Krosan Verge
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Krosan Verge (otc) 304
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.32
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tdm) 277
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.18
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (tdc) 384
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.30
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $4.56
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (blc) 329
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.37
Selesnya Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate (clu) 245
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.11
Temple Garden
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (rvr) 290
Color tag templates(None)
$13.99 $10.80
Temple of Mystery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Mystery (tdc) 404
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23
Temple of Plenty
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Plenty (tdc) 405
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (tdc) 408
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Treva's Ruins
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land - Lair
Treva's Ruins (dmr) 260
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.28
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $10.30

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49
Tree of Redemption
Defender
: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.93

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 3 Price: $1.05
Coral Colony
Defender
,
: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Wall
Coral Colony (dmu) 45
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Doorkeeper
Defender
,
: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
Creature - Homunculus
Doorkeeper (plst) IMA-53
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.19
Larder Zombie
Defender
Tap three untapped creatures you control: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Creature - Zombie
Larder Zombie (mid) 58
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.10

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Protection

Qty: 9 Price: $51.77
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Devoid (This card has no color.)
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.
Creature - Shapeshifter Eldrazi
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.60
Crystal Barricade
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $1.95
Eerie Interlude
Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Eerie Interlude (psoi) 16p
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $----
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (aer) 109
Color tag templates(None)
$22.99 $13.53
Jeskai Barricade
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wall
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.39
Resolute Watchdog
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature - Dog
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.25
Temur Sabertooth
: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Cat
Temur Sabertooth (frf) 141
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.46
Weathered Sentinels
Defender, vigilance, reach, trample
This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.28

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $1.63
Assault Formation
Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Assault Formation (dtk) 173
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.67
Crenellated Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crenellated Wall (mmq) 290
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.34
Walking Bulwark
Defender
: 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.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $18.04
Axebane Guardian
Defender
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
Creature - Human Druid
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
Cryptolith Rite
Creatures you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (soi) 200
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $6.45
Gatecreeper Vine
Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Plant
Gatecreeper Vine (rtr) 124
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.22
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (roe) 203
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.41
Saruli Caretaker
Defender
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Dryad
Saruli Caretaker (rna) 139
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $2.56
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $1.59
Ulvenwald Captive
Defender
: Add
.
: Transform this creature.
Creature - Horror Werewolf
Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.35
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (tsb) 89
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.57

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35
Mnemonic Wall
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Wall
Mnemonic Wall (ths) 55
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $51.43
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (bbd) 190
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.84
Cathedral Membrane
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Defender
When this creature dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.
Creature Artifact - Wall Phyrexian
Cathedral Membrane (nph) 5
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rtr) 35
Color tag templates(None)
$37.99 $30.90
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (akh) 210
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.31
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (ncc) 200
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.35
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.
Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (rix) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.40
Soulsworn Jury
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target creature spell.
Creature - Spirit
Soulsworn Jury (dis) 17
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
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 "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sorcery
The Battle of Bywater (ltr) 2
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $2.80
Wall of Stolen Identity
You may have this creature enter 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 this creature.
Creature - Shapeshifter Wall
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $4.41

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Stax

Qty: 2 Price: $17.28
Marble Titan
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Creature - Giant
Marble Titan (9ed) 26
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.92
Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Artifact
Meekstone (6ed) 299
Color tag templates(None)
$14.99 $10.73

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $11.06
Bring to Light
Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Bring to Light (bfz) 209
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29
Chord of Calling
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Chord of Calling (m15) 172
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $5.19
Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute
(
, 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.)
Creature - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rav) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.86
Shield-Wall Sentinel
Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.34

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Untap

Qty: 3 Price: $24.97
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.
: Untap target creature.
Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.38
Intruder Alarm
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (8ed) 86
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $3.68
Staff of Domination
: Untap this artifact.
,
: You gain 1 life.
,
: Untap target creature.
,
: Tap target creature.
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact
Staff of Domination (5dn) 156
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $10.37

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Deck Info

Deck stats

23 pips - 18 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
16 pips - 15 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
24 pips - 21 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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