Hornet Nest

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Hornet Nest 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.)

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Ajani, Wise Counselor

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−3: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
−9: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Murmuring Phantasm

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 artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Counterspell

Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Rimewood Falls enters tapped.

Quandrix Campus

Quandrix Campus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When Jeskai Barricade enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Garruk, Primal Hunter

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
−3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
−6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.)

Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever Pride Guardian blocks, you gain 3 life.

Faith's Reward

Return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

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.

Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, Steward of Elements, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Treefolk Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

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.

Plagon, Lord of the Beach

When Plagon, Lord of the Beach enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
{W/U}: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.

Elspeth, Knight-Errant

+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
+1: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible."

Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

The Wanderer

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control.
−2: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Thornwood Falls

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

Fortified Rampart

Perimeter Captain

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

Forest

Garruk Wildspeaker

+1: Untap two target lands.
−1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
−4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "{2}, {T}: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
Equip {3}

Tower Defense

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

Towering Titan

Towering Titan 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.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Wall of Essence

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor

Rigo, Streetwise Mentor 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.

Command Tower

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

Angelic Chorus

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

Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Defender, flying
When Orator of Ojutai enters, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Target player draws three cards.

Arctic Treeline

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Arctic Treeline enters tapped.

Meandering River

Meandering River enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

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.)

Woodland Stream

Woodland Stream enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Glacial Floodplain enters tapped.

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Feed the Pack

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature. If you do, create X 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Sphinx's Revelation

Diplomatic Immunity

Enchant creature
Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creature has shroud.

Reliquary Tower

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

Tranquil Expanse

Tranquil Expanse enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Wall of Frost

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

Botanical Plaza

Botanical Plaza enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{2}{G}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Botanical Plaza: Draw a card.

Return to the Ranks

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Return X target creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tree of Redemption

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

Kharis & The Beholder

Flying
When Kharis & The Beholder enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Human creature token and make a charisma check. (Roll a d20.)
• If the result plus the number of creatures you control is greater than 11, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• If the result is a natural 20, for each nonlegendary creature you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Simic Guildgate

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

Gatecreeper Vine

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

Alexi's Cloak

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Retribution of the Meek

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

Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Tangled Islet enters tapped.

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Tranquil Cove

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

Swords to Plowshares

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

Stasis Field

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

Radiant Grove

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Radiant Grove enters tapped.

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.

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Fortified Village

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

Seaside Citadel

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

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.

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Azorius Signet

Glacial Wall

Prairie Stream

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

Thought Vessel

Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Idyllic Beachfront enters tapped.

Wall of Mist

Overgrown Battlement

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

Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures.

Wall of Shards

Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Tamiyo, Field Researcher

+1: Choose up to two target creatures. Until your next turn, whenever either of those creatures deals combat damage, you draw a card.
−2: Tap up to two target nonland permanents. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
−7: Draw three cards. You get an emblem with "You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs."

Hover Barrier

Colfenor's Urn

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Selesnya Guildgate

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

Blossoming Sands

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

Simic Signet

Song of Freyalise

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.

Wall of Runes

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

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.

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Aegis of the Heavens

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

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage

+1: Draw a card.
+1: Untap all creatures you control.
−9: Gain control of up to three target creatures.

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