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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49
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 (m19) 212
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $3.76

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $23.48
Castle
Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
Enchantment
Castle (leb) 9
Color tag templates(None)
$20.99 $19.41
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)
$2.49 $1.38

Anthem

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Blink

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99
Panharmonicon
If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Artifact
Panharmonicon (kld) 226
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $5.34

Blink

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Clones

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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)
$5.99 $3.75

Clones

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Creature

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Minamo Scrollkeeper
Defender
Your maximum hand size is increased by one.
Creature - Human Wizard
Minamo Scrollkeeper (cns) 101
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.07
Woolly Razorback
This creature enters with three ice counters on it.
As long as this creature has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever this creature blocks, remove an ice counter from it.
Creature - Beast Boar
Woolly Razorback (csp) 25
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.52

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 9 Price: $8.23
Bonded Fetch
Defender, haste
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Homunculus
Bonded Fetch (tsr) 54
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.35
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.)
Creature - Spirit
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Jungle Barrier
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Jungle Barrier (ima) 202
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
Psychic Membrane
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Psychic Membrane (mrd) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Redrock Sentinel
Defender
,
, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature Artifact - Golem
Redrock Sentinel (otj) 247
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.16
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (pc2) 81
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.39
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (m15) 208
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (f11) 3
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $4.88

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Evasion

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Peregrine Mask
Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Peregrine Mask (rav) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22

Evasion

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Finisher

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Craterhoof Behemoth
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Creature - Beast
Craterhoof Behemoth (avr) 172
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $19.45
Guardian of the Ages
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if this creature has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Guardian of the Ages (m14) 211
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.17

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (ice) 351
Color tag templates(None)
$29.99 $26.12
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (tmp) 315
Color tag templates(None)
$139.99 $128.88
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (ice) 352
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $19.60
Castle Ardenvale
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
: Add
.
,
: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Land
Castle Ardenvale (eld) 238
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.33
Castle Vantress
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: Scry 2.
Land
Castle Vantress (eld) 242
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.37
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (sld) 7063
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $15.78
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 (ktk) 233
Color tag templates(None)
$21.99 $15.53
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (leb) 301
Color tag templates(None)
$29.99 $28.21
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (afr) 278
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.12
Gemstone Mine
This land enters with three mining counters on it.
, Remove a mining counter from this land: Add one mana of any color. If there are no mining counters on this land, sacrifice it.
Land
Gemstone Mine (wth) 164
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $13.06
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (leb) 293
Color tag templates(None)
$44.99 $46.15
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ody) 337
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.40
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
: Add
.
,
: Untap target legendary permanent.
Legendary Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279
Color tag templates(None)
$549.99 $299.83
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (zen) 220
Color tag templates(None)
$47.99 $37.78
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (ala) 231
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (pl26) 5
Color tag templates(None)
$139.99 $----
Tarnished Citadel
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.
Land
Tarnished Citadel (ody) 329
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $18.52
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 (pls) 143
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.95
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 (ktk) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $12.00
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (10e) 363
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $2.03

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $2.78
Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.42
Tree of Redemption
Defender
: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Redemption (tdc) 97
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.55

Lifegain

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Protection

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Akroma's Memorial
Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.
Legendary Artifact
Akroma's Memorial (fut) 159
Color tag templates(None)
$37.99 $35.50
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 (m3c) 165
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $14.43
Brave the Sands
Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.
Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $6.35
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
Duty Beyond Death
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy those creatures.)
Instant
Duty Beyond Death (tdm) 10
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
Echo Circlet
Equipped creature can block an additional creature each combat.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Echo Circlet (som) 153
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.15
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $20.34
Gomazoa
Defender, flying
: Put this creature and each creature it's blocking on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle.
Creature - Jellyfish
Gomazoa (cmd) 48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.28
High Ground
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.
Enchantment
High Ground (exo) 7
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.24
Island Sanctuary
If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk.
Enchantment
Island Sanctuary (leb) 26
Color tag templates(None)
$179.99 $199.99
Make a Stand
Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Instant
Make a Stand (j25) 222
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.28
One-Eyed Scarecrow
Defender
Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
One-Eyed Scarecrow (isd) 230
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $0.53
Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl
Ward

Other creatures you control have ward
.
Whenever Storvald enters or attacks, choose one or both —
• Target creature has base power and toughness 7/7 until end of turn.
• Target creature has base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Giant
Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl (afc) 55
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.55
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (m12) 219
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $1.84
Unbreakable Formation
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.
Instant
Unbreakable Formation (rvr) 32
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.15
Vertigo Spawn
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Illusion
Vertigo Spawn (gpt) 42
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.05
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 $0.91

Protection

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Pump

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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 (tdc) 246
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.35
Leering Emblem
Whenever you cast a spell, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Leering Emblem (eve) 171
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.77

Pump

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Ramp

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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 (tdc) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.37
Floriferous Vinewall
Defender
When this creature enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Plant Wall
Floriferous Vinewall (m3c) 228
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
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 (ddm) 48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.24
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.32
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (leb) 270
Color tag templates(None)
$1399.99 $869.99
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 $2.80
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.66
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.17
Wild-Field Scarecrow
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
Wild-Field Scarecrow (inr) 274
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27

Ramp

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Removal

Qty: 8 Price: $18.08
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 $0.28
Expel the Interlopers
Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.
Sorcery
Expel the Interlopers (woe) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (c14) 7
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.33
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
Creature - Spirit
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch (bok) 39
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.39
Retaliate
Destroy all creatures that dealt damage to you this turn.
Instant
Retaliate (5dn) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.61
Retribution of the Meek
Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Retribution of the Meek (vis) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $8.68
Solar Tide
Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Sorcery
Solar Tide (mrd) 24
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.78
Wall of Nets
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $5.58

Removal

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Tokens

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Elspeth, Knight-Errant
+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
+1: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible."
Legendary Planeswalker - Elspeth
Elspeth, Knight-Errant (mma) 13
Color tag templates(None)
$7.49 $8.52
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."
Legendary Planeswalker - Elspeth
Elspeth, Sun's Champion (mkc) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $2.20
Hornet Nest
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature 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.)
Creature - Insect
Hornet Nest (tdc) 259
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.34
Roc Egg
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying.
Creature - Bird Egg
Roc Egg (m11) 25
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.09
Wingmantle Chaplain
Defender
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Creature - Human Cleric
Wingmantle Chaplain (tdc) 141
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $48.78
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (ema) 9
Color tag templates(None)
$47.99 $37.38
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 $0.33

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69
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 $0.39

Untap

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Deck stats

37 pips - 30 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
12 pips - 12 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
18 pips - 16 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 6 cards
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