Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, 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.

Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Amaranthine Wall

Defender
{2}: Amaranthine Wall gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice Angelic Shield: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters the battlefield tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Armor of Faith

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
{W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
{G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
{2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Aurification

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it.
Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.)
When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Carven Caryatid enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Cathar's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Clinging Anemones

Defender
Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible
{10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Coral Colony

Defender
{1}{U}, {T}: 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.)

Deep Freeze

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/4, has defender, loses all other abilities, and is a blue Wall in addition to its other colors and types.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Dive Down

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Doorkeeper

Defender
{2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Dawn

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Return all creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Dusk // Dawn

Eland Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+4.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Fortified Rampart

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 of your library.)

Glacial Wall

Guardian Zendikon

Enchant land
Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land.
When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Guardians of Meletis

Hover Barrier

Jungle Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Jungle Barrier enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Junktroller

Defender
{T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Kite Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Murmuring Phantasm

Overgrown Battlement

Defender
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

Parapet

You may cast Parapet as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
Creatures you control get +0/+1.

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Primal Clay

As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Retribution of the Meek

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

Shape the Sands

Target creature gets +0/+5 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Shield Mate

Sacrifice Shield Mate: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

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.

Spectral Shield

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can't be the target of spells.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Stasis Field

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/2, has defender, and loses all other abilities.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Testament of Faith

{X}: Testament of Faith becomes an X/X Wall creature with defender in addition to its other types until end of turn.

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Towering Titan

Towering Titan enters the battlefield 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.

Tree of Redemption

Defender
{T}: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.

Wall of Denial

Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Wall of Ice

Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Wall of Junk blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Wall of Mist

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets.
When Wall of Nets leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with Wall of Nets to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender
{G}: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, vigilance, reach, trample
Weathered Sentinels can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever Weathered Sentinels attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control.
Whenever another creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
{2}{U}{U}: 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.

Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Forest

Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Island

Overgrown Farmland

Overgrown Farmland enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Plains

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Seaside Citadel

Seaside Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered.
Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

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