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Defend the Dragon
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $137.46
Salt sum: 23.19
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212

Commander

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Instant

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Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Instant
Aegis of the Heavens (jmp) 79
Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant
Refute (fdn) 313

Instant

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Pump

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Fortify

Choose one — • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Fortify (mm2) 17
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147
Walking Bulwark

Defender {2}: 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
Walking Bulwark (dmu) 241

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Tokens

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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
Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu) 39

Tokens

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Anthem

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Always Watching

Nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Always Watching (plst) SOI-1

Anthem

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Land

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Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (neo) 265
Botanical Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Botanical Sanctum (otj) 267
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (woe) 256
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (gk1) 127
Fortified Village

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

Land
Fortified Village (mic) 174
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (vow) 399
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: 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 (voc) 177
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
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. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (voc) 178
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (voc) 179
Restless Vinestalk

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Land
Restless Vinestalk (woe) 307
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (fdn) 267
Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (mic) 180
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (voc) 185
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (voc) 188

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (voc) 161
Explosive Vegetation

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

Sorcery
Explosive Vegetation (ons) 263
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (rvr) 138
Flower

Sorcery
Flower // Flourish (grn) 226
Gleaming Barrier

Defender When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Gleaming Barrier (rix) 178
Saruli Caretaker

Defender {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Saruli Caretaker (rna) 139
Selesnya Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Artifact
Selesnya Signet (gk1) 123
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (rvr) 269
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Vine Trellis (8ed) 287

Ramp

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Tutor

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Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42

Tutor

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Creature

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Clockwork Drawbridge

Defender {2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature Artifact
Clockwork Drawbridge (dmu) 13
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
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Dazzling Ramparts

Defender {1}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature
Dazzling Ramparts (ktk) 6
Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach {4}{G}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Creature
Grappling Sundew (grn) 131
Monastery Flock

Defender, flying Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Monastery Flock (ktk) 47
Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
Sanctuary Wall

Defender {2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature. You may put a stun counter on it. If you do, put a stun counter on this creature. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature Artifact
Sanctuary Wall (mkm) 32
Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature
Wall of Mist (grn) 58
Wall of Vines

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

Creature
Wall of Vines (m19) 210

Creature

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Lifegain

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (fdn) 137

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Builder's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, create a 0/4 white Wall creature token with defender. {W}: Level 2 Whenever one or more noncreature, nonland permanents you control enter, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target noncreature, nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Builder's Talent (blb) 5
Court of Ardenvale

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ardenvale (woc) 21
Junktroller

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

Creature Artifact
Junktroller (rvr) 262

Recursion

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Untap

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Acrobatic Leap

Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Acrobatic Leap (lci) 2
Refuse to Yield

Target creature gets +2/+7 until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Refuse to Yield (snc) 27
Steady Aim

Untap target creature. It gets +1/+4 and gains reach until end of turn.

Instant
Steady Aim (war) 177

Untap

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Draw

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Portcullis Vine

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Creature
Portcullis Vine (grn) 142
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.)

Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
Wall of Runes

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Wall of Runes (war) 75

Draw

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Mill

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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.)

Creature
Coral Colony (dmu) 45
Wall of Lost Thoughts

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Wall of Lost Thoughts (rna) 59

Mill

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Condemn

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Condemn (rvr) 14
Curse of Conformity

Enchant player Nonlegendary creatures enchanted player controls have base power and toughness 3/3 and lose all creature types.

Enchantment
Curse of Conformity (mic) 6
Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (c19) 63
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) 381
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (voc) 85
Grasp of Fate

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment
Grasp of Fate (wot) 3
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 (mic) 92
Return to Nature

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

Instant
Return to Nature (war) 175

Removal

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Evasion

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Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (snc) 245
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Towering Viewpoint

Defender, reach Leap of Faith — {3}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Towering Viewpoint (acr) 77

Evasion

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Protection

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Amaranthine Wall

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

Creature Artifact
Amaranthine Wall (dom) 210
Bedrock Tortoise

During 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.

Creature
Bedrock Tortoise (lci) 176
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.)

Artifact
Cathar's Shield (emn) 192
Consulate Skygate

Defender Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact
Consulate Skygate (bbd) 232
Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.) As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Eerie Interference

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

Instant
Eerie Interference (woe) 12
Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Creature
Fog Bank (plst) BBD-117
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (lcc) 114
Paladin's Shield

Flash When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +0/+2. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Paladin's Shield (afr) 30
Privileged Position

({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.) Other permanents you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Enchantment
Privileged Position (gk1) 116
Riot Control

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Riot Control (dgm) 6
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) −2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

Planeswalker
Teyo, the Shieldmage (war) 32
Wall of Frost

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

Creature
Wall of Frost (m15) 83

Protection

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Sorcery

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Raise the Past

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 22

Sorcery

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Deck Info

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42 pips - 30 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
16 pips - 14 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
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19 pips - 16 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
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3 mana - 3 cards
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