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.

Wall of Denial

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

Axebane Guardian

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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.

Overgrown Battlement

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

Perimeter Captain

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Tower Defense

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

Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender
When Shield-Wall Sentinel enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Flumph

Defender, flying
Whenever Flumph is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

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.

Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When Sporocyst enters the battlefield, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor enters the battlefield with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever you attack a player or planeswalker with one or more creatures with power 1 or less, draw a card.

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

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.
{2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Bedrock Tortoise

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Dawn Charm

Choose one —
• Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
• Regenerate target creature.
• Counter target spell that targets you.

Doorkeeper

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

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.

Bant Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Negate

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.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Swords to Plowshares

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

Counterspell

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.

Fog Bank

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank.

Blinding Fog

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Safe Passage

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control this turn.

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Holy Day

Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Surge of Salvation

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

Thwart the Enemy

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Terrifying Presence

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by creatures other than target creature this turn.

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Teferi's Tutelage

When Teferi's Tutelage enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Fell the Mighty

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

Maze's End

Maze's End enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Return Maze's End to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Thought Vessel

Fraying Sanity

Enchant player
At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Command Tower

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Seaside Citadel

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

Prairie Stream

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

Forest

Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter the battlefield untapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Manor Gate

Manor Gate enters the battlefield tapped.
As Manor Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than green.
{T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Fortified Village

As Fortified Village enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Fortified Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Evolving Wilds

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

Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Court of Cunning

When Court of Cunning enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Island

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Thran Portal

Thran Portal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
As Thran Portal enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.
Thran Portal is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Mana abilities of Thran Portal cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Sea Gate

Sea Gate enters the battlefield tapped.
As Sea Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Plains

Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Spelunking

When Spelunking enters the battlefield, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life.
Lands you control enter the battlefield untapped.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Wedding Ring

When Wedding Ring enters the battlefield, if it was cast, target opponent creates a token that's a copy of it.
Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring draws a card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring gains life during their turn, you gain that much life.

Moment's Peace

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
{5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills three cards.

Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Citadel Gate

Citadel Gate enters the battlefield tapped.
As Citadel Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When Gatecreeper Vine enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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