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Defender of the Planes
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Est deck cost: $287.02
Salt sum: 22.12
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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 (m19) 212

Commander

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Anthem

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Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46

Anthem

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Counters

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Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Dissipate (m15) 51

Counters

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Creature

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Dragon's Eye Sentry

Defender, first strike

Creature
Dragon's Eye Sentry (dtk) 11
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

Creature

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Draw

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Fecund Greenshell

Reach As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Fecund Greenshell (blb) 171
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
Orator of Ojutai (c17) 67
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
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo enters 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.

Creature
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor (snc) 215
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
Skeleton Key

Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Equip {2}

Artifact
Skeleton Key (soi) 263
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.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (afc) 77

Draw

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Evasion

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69

Evasion

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Land

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Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (cmd) 265
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (gtc) 240
Canopy Vista

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

Land
Canopy Vista (blc) 296
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
Flooded Strand

{T}, 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
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (m13) 225
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (sld) 123
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (isd) 241
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Krosan Verge (c18) 263
Misty Rainforest

{T}, 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 (mh2) 250
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 279
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (afc) 256
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (rtr) 245
Scattered Groves

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Scattered Groves (akh) 247
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 (gk1) 125
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dis) 180
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (m11) 228
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rtr) 248
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 (bng) 163
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (m20) 255
Temple of Plenty

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 {G} or {W}.

Land
Temple of Plenty (thb) 248
Windswept Heath

{T}, 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

Land

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Lifegain

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Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (bbd) 87
Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. −3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Planeswalker
Huatli, the Sun's Heart (war) 230
Perimeter Captain

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

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16
Pride Guardian

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

Creature
Pride Guardian (cns) 77
Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (isd) 207

Lifegain

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Mill

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Doorkeeper

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

Creature
Doorkeeper (rtr) 37

Mill

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Protection

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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 (kld) 202
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
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) 444
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Glint

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.)

Instant
Glint (dtk) 55
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye instead. {1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

Creature
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo (bok) 17
Resolute Watchdog

Defender {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Slagwurm Armor

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

Artifact
Slagwurm Armor (mrd) 243
Spidersilk Net

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Spidersilk Net (dtk) 244
Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Stoneskin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
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 (m12) 219
Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (ddi) 11
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 (m14) 78
Wall of Tanglecord

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

Creature Artifact
Wall of Tanglecord (som) 222
Weathered Sentinels

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

Creature Artifact
Weathered Sentinels (ncc) 185

Protection

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Pump

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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.)

Artifact
Accorder's Shield (m14) 204
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.

Enchantment
Assault Formation (dtk) 173
Shape the Sands

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

Instant
Shape the Sands (dtk) 205
Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment
Sight of the Scalelords (dtk) 207
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (gtc) 137
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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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 297
Axebane Guardian

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

Creature
Axebane Guardian (rtr) 115
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (m13) 170
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ima) 180
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c18) 222
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 (gvl) 4

Ramp

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Raise the Past

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

Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 447

Recursion

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Removal

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
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 (c17) 60
Kabira Takedown

Instant
Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau (znr) 19Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau (znr) 19
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 (mm3) 17
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
The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
The Battle of Bywater (ltr) 2

Removal

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Tutor

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Shield-Wall Sentinel

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238

Tutor

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Untap

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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.

Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

34 pips - 26 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
17 pips - 14 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
19 pips - 18 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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