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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99
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 (plst) M19-212
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $2.60 $1.39

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $2.14
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)
$1.79 $1.39 $1.03
Warded Battlements
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.
Creature - Wall
Warded Battlements (m21) 44
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Anthem

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79
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 $0.36 $0.15

Bounce

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Cycling

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39
Sanctum Plowbeast
Defender
Plainscycling
, islandcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature Artifact - Beast
Sanctum Plowbeast (arb) 10
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.24 $0.15

Cycling

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Draw

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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 $0.31 $0.15
Jungle Barrier
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32 $0.15
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 (c17) 67
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23 $0.20
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 $0.20 $0.15
Sylvan Library
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179
Color tag templates(None)
$32.99 $26.58 $27.30
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)
$3.99 $1.70 $1.23
Vanquisher's Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.
Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316
Color tag templates(None)
$7.99 $5.09 $3.90
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.32 $0.15
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 $0.26 $0.15
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (tdc) 138
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32 $0.17

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Creature - Wall
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17 $0.15
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)
$0.35 $0.33 $0.15
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 $0.23 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29
Colossus of Akros
Defender, indestructible
: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.61 $0.31

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $181.36
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.32 $0.19
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)
$13.99 $9.55 $8.32
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (fic) 377
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.42 $0.36
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (tmc) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $11.86 $10.43
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.34 $0.20
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mrd) 306
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.22 $0.15
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (msc) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.26 $0.15
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)
$9.99 $7.88 $6.72
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (msc) 250
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.29 $0.25
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mrd) 293
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.28 $0.18
Lotus Vale
If this land would enter, sacrifice two untapped lands instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
: Add three mana of any one color.
Land
Lotus Vale (wth) 165
Color tag templates(None)
$47.99 $38.62 $20.56
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Color tag templates(None)
$42.99 $33.74 $29.17
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (msc) 254
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29 $0.15
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mrd) 289
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23 $0.18
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.98 $3.55
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (ecc) 166
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36 $0.21
Strip Mine
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $17.24 $9.11
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (msc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.37 $0.25
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 $7.38 $7.00
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (soc) 416
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.32 $0.15
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.39 $0.25

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 4 Price: $7.32
Leyline of Vitality
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Leyline of Vitality (m11) 183
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $3.46 $1.78
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)
$1.49 $0.74 $0.17
Tree of Redemption
Defender
: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Redemption (tdc) 97
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.52 $0.34
Wall of Essence
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Essence (m15) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35
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 $0.37 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 13 Price: $77.75
Dazzling Ramparts
Defender
,
: Tap target creature.
Creature - Wall
Dazzling Ramparts (ktk) 6
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20 $0.15
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 (fdn) 591
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14 $0.15
Hover Barrier
Defender, flying
Creature - Illusion Wall
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.44 $0.20
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $4.21 $3.77
Manor Gargoyle
Defender
This creature has indestructible as long as it has defender.
: Until end of turn, this creature loses defender and gains flying.
Creature Artifact - Gargoyle
Manor Gargoyle (isd) 228
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.20 $0.15
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $0.40 $0.31
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 (blc) 286
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $2.59 $2.36
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall
The Walls of Ba Sing Se (tla) 261
Color tag templates(None)
$37.99 $24.04 $21.30
Vedalken Orrery
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 317
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $18.49 $17.27
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (cmm) 939
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.48 $0.38
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 (plst) MM3-56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32 $0.17
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 (plst) CSP-23
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $6.56 $3.98
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 $0.32 $0.15

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)
$0.59 $0.37 $0.30
Bar the Door
Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.
Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21 $0.15
Rolling Stones
Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.
Enchantment
Rolling Stones (8ed) 38★
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $6.56 $7.45
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27 $0.15
Wakestone Gargoyle
Defender, flying
: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.
Creature - Gargoyle
Wakestone Gargoyle (tdc) 137
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.31 $0.15
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 (tdc) 334
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $26.10
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.49 $0.42
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 $0.32 $0.15
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.
Sorcery
Cultivate (msc) 172
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.38 $0.28
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (msc) 173
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.37 $0.36
Kodama's Reach
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.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (ecc) 113
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.16 $0.89
Omniscience
You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.
Enchantment
Omniscience (fdn) 161
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $5.81 $4.16
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29 $0.21
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (me1) 166
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $---- $----
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.49 $1.44
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)
$3.49 $2.95 $1.51
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $1.00 $0.75
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.17 $0.90
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (tdc) 278
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70
Junktroller
Defender
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Junktroller (rvr) 262
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25 $0.15
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 (plst) IMA-67
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29 $0.18

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 4 Price: $2.12
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (mkc) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.34 $0.16
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 (tdc) 131
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31 $0.15
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)
$0.49 $0.79 $0.26
Wave of Reckoning
Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (soc) 112
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.41 $0.15

Removal

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
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 $0.56 $0.20

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
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 (plst) RNA-182
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.49 $0.35

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Deck stats

24 pips - 22 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
17 pips - 14 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 8 cards
21 pips - 19 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
9 mana - 7 cards
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