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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $54.99
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 (tsr) 371
Color tag templates(None)
$54.99 $30.89

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99
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)
$1.99 $1.65

Anthem

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29
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)
$1.29 $0.43

Bounce

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Creature

Qty: 5 Price: $21.81
Amaranthine Wall
Defender
: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Amaranthine Wall (dom) 210
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
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 $0.35
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)
$4.49 $2.11
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)
$11.99 $10.81
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (pths) 180★
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $3.92

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $10.50
Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (ima) 156
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29
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 $0.29
Jungle Barrier
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Jungle Barrier (e02) 38
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Mentor of the Meek
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Human Soldier
Mentor of the Meek (m19) 27
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.30
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 $0.19
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
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (cma) 164
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.30
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)
$2.29 $2.46
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)
$4.49 $4.45
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (ema) 34
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.34

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Evasion

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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.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (c16) 42
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.66
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 $0.22

Evasion

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Instant

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49
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.
Instant
Path to Exile (pf20) 1
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $9.14

Instant

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $313.69
Arcane Lighthouse
: Add
.
,
: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.
Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Color tag templates(None)
$7.49 $6.89
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 $0.40
Bountiful Promenade
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bountiful Promenade (bbd) 81
Color tag templates(None)
$24.99 $17.83
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 (gtc) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $12.08
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (c18) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (soc) 369
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.27
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)
$23.99 $16.77
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ust) 216
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $3.79
Ghost Quarter
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Ghost Quarter (cm2) 253
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.90
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.55
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 (rtr) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $8.28
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ust) 213
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.18
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 (mm3) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$42.99 $37.26
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (ust) 212
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.29
Port Town
As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Port Town (soi) 278
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.40
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (pss1) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $3.78
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (m19) 254
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $3.99
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Color tag templates(None)
$24.99 $17.99
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (c18) 277
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.57
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.04
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 (grn) 258
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.46
Wasteland
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Land
Wasteland (ema) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$39.99 $28.33
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)
$18.99 $11.98

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $5.07
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)
$1.29 $1.47
Tree of Redemption
Defender
: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.95
Wall of Reverence
Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
Creature - Spirit Wall
Wall of Reverence (uma) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.78

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 11 Price: $55.05
Angelsong
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Angelsong (dvd) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $0.67
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)
$5.99 $6.35
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 (soi) 16
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $6.82
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 (bbd) 117
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
Guard Gomazoa
Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.
Creature - Jellyfish
Guard Gomazoa (pca) 17
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.56
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (f09) 8
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $18.92
Meishin, the Mind Cage
All creatures get -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Enchantment
Meishin, the Mind Cage (sok) 44
Color tag templates(None)
$7.99 $9.78
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)
$1.29 $1.40
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 (mm3) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.28
Wall of Glare
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.53
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)
$5.49 $7.08

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 2 Price: $1.58
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 (ima) 155
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.58
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.36

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $156.06
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
Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (mps) 8
Color tag templates(None)
$109.99 $115.09
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (c18) 200
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
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 (c18) 138
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.65
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (ima) 180
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.27
Skyshroud Claim
Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (bbd) 213
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $2.30
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (v10) 12
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $20.50
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 $3.41
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (cm2) 224
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $2.51
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285
Color tag templates(None)
$14.99 $30.75

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.34
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 (ima) 67
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Sun Titan
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Giant
Sun Titan (cm2) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.32

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 11 Price: $42.61
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 (ima) 10
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.63
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 $0.86
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (akh) 210
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.33
Reality Shift
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Instant
Reality Shift (ugin) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $2.33
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.
Instant
Return to Dust (c18) 71
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.19
Settle the Wreckage
Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Settle the Wreckage (xln) 34
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.51
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 $0.47
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 $0.18
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Color tag templates(None)
$17.99 $11.03
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cst) 54
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $4.62
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)
$4.99 $5.44

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $89.99
Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Artifact
Meekstone (mps) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$89.99 $85.72

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49
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)
$8.49 $5.58

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59
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)
$0.59 $0.39

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Maybeboard

Qty: 9 Price: $18.43
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)
$2.79 $1.45
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 (rvr) 314
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.33
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Starfish
Plagon, Lord of the Beach (j25) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $1.56
Rampart Architect
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a 1/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
Whenever a creature you control with defender dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Advisor Elephant
Rampart Architect (tdc) 47
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.25
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (tle) 170
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.15
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)
$3.49 $1.64
Towering Titan
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control.
Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.
Creature - Giant
Towering Titan (tdc) 276
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.25
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)
$5.49 $4.53
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 $0.24

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Deck stats

36 pips - 27 cards
21 mana - 20 cards
19 pips - 15 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
21 pips - 18 cards
21 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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