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Defenders
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Commander

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Thantis, the Warweaver

Vigilance, reach All creatures attack each combat if able. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a +1/+1 counter on Thantis.

Creature
Thantis, the Warweaver (plst) C18-46

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Drain

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Blood Reckoning

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Blood Reckoning (m13) 81
Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Marchesa's Decree

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (plst) CN2-44
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207

Drain

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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
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
Golgari Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {B}{G}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.

Artifact
Golgari Keyrune (rtr) 229
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (mkc) 157
Sentinel

{0}: Change this creature's base toughness to 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by this creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature Artifact
Sentinel (chr) 107
Wall of Shadows

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking. This creature can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Creature
Wall of Shadows (leg) 128

Protection

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Tokens

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Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Hornet Nest (scd) 189
Rite of the Raging Storm

Creatures named Lightning Rager can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player creates a 5/1 red Elemental creature token named Lightning Rager. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."

Enchantment
Rite of the Raging Storm (mkc) 159
Sprouting Phytohydra

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Sprouting Phytohydra (dis) 95

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Anger

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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 (plst) IMA-155
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
Warmonger's Chariot

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Warmonger's Chariot (jmp) 490

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Draw

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Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Carven Caryatid (jmp) 382
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (dsc) 86
Floriferous Vinewall

Defender When this creature enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Floriferous Vinewall (dmu) 163
Gibbering Barricade

Defender {2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Gibbering Barricade (dmu) 95
Portcullis Vine

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

Creature
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (plst) STH-125
Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Mulch (plst) ONS-298

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Pump

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Ancient Lumberknot

Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Ancient Lumberknot (vow) 230
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
Crown of Doom

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. {2}: Target player other than this artifact's owner gains control of it. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Crown of Doom (c14) 55
Spidersilk Armor

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Enchantment
Spidersilk Armor (plst) MMQ-273

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Tutor

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Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (ddr) 7
District Guide

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
District Guide (grn) 128
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Gatecreeper Vine

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

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
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
Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (plst) BFZ-192

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Burn

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Archers' Parapet

Defender {1}{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Archers' Parapet (ktk) 128
Blight Pile

Defender {2}{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Creature
Blight Pile (dmu) 82
Brimstone Trebuchet

Defender, reach {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever a Knight you control enters, untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Brimstone Trebuchet (eld) 116
Crackling Perimeter

Tap an untapped Gate you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Crackling Perimeter (gtc) 88
Lobber Crew

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, untap this creature.

Creature
Lobber Crew (rtr) 99
Spear Spewer

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each player.

Creature
Spear Spewer (j22) 82
Thermo-Alchemist

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

Creature
Thermo-Alchemist (inr) 174
Unruly Catapult

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Unruly Catapult (woe) 156
Vent Sentinel

Defender {1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature
Vent Sentinel (plst) IMA-153
Wall of Souls

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Creature
Wall of Souls (sth) 75

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Evasion

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Battle Rampart

Defender {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Battle Rampart (plst) BBD-165
Frenzied Saddlebrute

Haste All creatures can attack your opponents and planeswalkers your opponents control as though those creatures had haste.

Creature
Frenzied Saddlebrute (cmr) 180
Suspicious Bookcase

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

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (snc) 245
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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Ramp

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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 (plst) RTR-115
Circuitous Route

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

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (plst) GRN-125
Explore the Underdark

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

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (mh2) 166
Navigation Orb

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Sylvan Caryatid

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

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Trove of Temptation

Each opponent must attack you or a planeswalker you control with at least one creature each combat if able. At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Trove of Temptation (j22) 616
Vine Trellis

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

Creature
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4

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Creature

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Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos

Trample Alexios attacks each combat if able, can't be sacrificed, and can't attack its owner. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Alexios, untaps it, and puts a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos (acr) 33

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (otc) 270
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.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
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.

Land
Basilisk Gate (mb2) 104
Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Cliffgate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (tdm) 285
Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Gond Gate

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

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Gruul Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Gruul Guildgate (clu) 237
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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (mkc) 269
Labyrinth of Skophos

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Land
Labyrinth of Skophos (mkc) 272
Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land 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.

Land
Maze's End (plst) DGM-152
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 284
Mystifying Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Exile target attacking creature an opponent controls. At the beginning of the next end step, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Land
Mystifying Maze (c17) 264
Planar Nexus

This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Planar Nexus (m3c) 132
Plaza of Harmony

When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (plst) RNA-254
Rakdos Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (clu) 244
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Savage Lands

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Land
Savage Lands (cmm) 1025
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 282
Thran Portal

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

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234

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Removal

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Gates Ablaze

Gates Ablaze deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of Gates you control.

Sorcery
Gates Ablaze (rna) 102
Vow of Malice

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Enchantment
Vow of Malice (plst) CM2-82
Vow of Wildness

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3, has trample, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

Enchantment
Vow of Wildness (cmr) 262
Wall of Corpses

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {B}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target creature this creature is blocking.

Creature
Wall of Corpses (plst) MIR-151

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Aether Membrane

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature
Aether Membrane (ddi) 48
Arachnogenesis

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

Instant
Arachnogenesis (dsc) 169
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 this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (dsc) 223
Manor Gargoyle

Defender This creature has indestructible as long as it has defender. {1}: Until end of turn, this creature loses defender and gains flying.

Creature Artifact
Manor Gargoyle (isd) 228
Molten Sentry

As this creature enters, flip a coin. If the coin comes up heads, this creature enters as a 5/2 creature with haste. If it comes up tails, this creature enters as a 2/5 creature with defender.

Creature
Molten Sentry (rav) 136
Nesting Dragon

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/2 red Dragon Egg creature token with defender and "When this token dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and '{R}: This token gets +1/+0 until end of turn.'"

Creature
Nesting Dragon (otc) 176
Rage Nimbus

Defender, flying {1}{R}: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

Creature
Rage Nimbus (roe) 160
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 93
Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Creature
Sapling of Colfenor (c21) 228
Saruli Caretaker

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

Creature
Saruli Caretaker (rna) 139
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei is still on the battlefield.

Creature
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker (cmm) 186
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, 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 untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
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
Towering Titan (jmp) 31
Tree of Perdition

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

Creature
Tree of Perdition (inr) 135
Ulvenwald Captive

Creature
Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175
Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Blood (plst) MRD-82
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) 85

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