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Commander

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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 (plst) M19-212
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.16

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Anthem

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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)
$2.29 $1.53

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Counter

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An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $1.85
Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (plst) OTC-89
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $2.40
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $2.84
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (fca) 51
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $5.28
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$12.99 $8.23

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Defender

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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 (dmr) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.30
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 $0.34

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Draw

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Assemble the Players
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.
Enchantment
Assemble the Players (mkm) 287
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.34
Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (tdc) 250
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Flumph
Defender, flying
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.
Creature - Jellyfish
Flumph (afr) 361
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $2.64
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)
$2.99 $1.73
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (sth) 125
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $4.75
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (fca) 27
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.27
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 $0.23

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Creature - Wall
Angelic Wall (ody) 3
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.19
Hover Barrier
Defender, flying
Creature - Illusion Wall
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.43
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.29
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (mm3) 201
Color tag templates(None)
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Finisher

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Akroma's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Instant
Akroma's Will (soa) 1
Color tag templates(None)
$29.99 $22.84
Triumph of the Hordes
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Sorcery
Triumph of the Hordes (soa) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $14.19
True Conviction
Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.
Enchantment
True Conviction (scd) 38
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $2.88
Unnatural Growth
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (inr) 223
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $3.61

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (drc) 144
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.37
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 (eoe) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $9.70
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (ltc) 297
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.22
Canopy Vista
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (ltc) 298
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.35
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.39
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (hob) 198
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $2.00
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 (ecl) 265
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $7.81
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (hob) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $2.00
Overflowing Basin
,
: Add
.
Land
Overflowing Basin (fic) 410
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.26
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (hob) 194
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $2.00
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (fic) 413
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.26
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (ltc) 325
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $6.02
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (mb2) 111
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $3.27
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
Color tag templates(None)
$49.99 $36.28
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (ecc) 166
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.32
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (fic) 423
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.26
Sodden Verdure
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Forest
Sodden Verdure (ecc) 24
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.40
Spara's Headquarters
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Forest
Spara's Headquarters (psnc) 257s
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $17.44
Sungrass Prairie
,
: Add
.
Land
Sungrass Prairie (fic) 428
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.26
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 (ecl) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$9.99 $8.79
Urban Retreat
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
, Return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Urban Retreat (spm) 187
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.61
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)
$19.99 $12.63
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (drc) 184
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.33

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29
Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (plst) WWK-16
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.92

Lifegain

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Protection

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Angelic Shield
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Angelic Shield (inv) 228
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29
Clever Concealment
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.)
Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)
Instant
Clever Concealment (fic) 236
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $5.38
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 $0.51
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) 365
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $25.39
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 (khc) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $8.22
Fog Bank
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.
Creature - Wall
Fog Bank (c14) 110
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.26
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (sld) 1872
Color tag templates(None)
$29.99 $----
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)
$0.99 $0.40
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)
$0.69 $0.29
Wall of Frost
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Frost (m11) 79
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.34
Wall of Shards
Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Snow Creature - Wall
Wall of Shards (csp) 23
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $7.08
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 (tdc) 336
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $0.95

Protection

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Pump

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Crenellated Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crenellated Wall (plst) MMQ-290
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.34
Solidarity
Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.
Instant
Solidarity (8ed) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Stoneskin
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.
Enchantment - Aura
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $1.54
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.35

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.60
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 (plst) RTR-115
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.16
Decanter of Endless Water
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (plst) CLB-309
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $3.64
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (fca) 45
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $0.80
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (5ed) 316
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $4.00
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (roe) 203
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.40
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.81
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.70
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (plst) NCC-319
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.21

Ramp

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Removal

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Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.74
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (cmm) 624
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.24
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (m3c) 173
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.41

Removal

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Removal (Mass)

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Austere Command
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Austere Command (fic) 231
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.41
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (blc) 138
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.29
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 (plst) CMR-48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.13
Wave of Reckoning
Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (soc) 112
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.38

Removal (Mass)

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Tutor

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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 (plst) RAV-46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.35
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)
$0.79 $0.35

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Utility

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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 (plst) IMA-155
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.73
Brave the Sands
Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.
Enchantment
Brave the Sands (ktk) 5
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $3.55
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)
$0.69 $0.41
Primal Rage
Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Enchantment
Primal Rage (sth) 112
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $6.22

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Maybeboard

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Raise the Past
Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.46
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (soc) 289
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $5.73

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36 pips - 28 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
17 pips - 15 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
23 pips - 18 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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