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Arcadezim, ̶o̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶b̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶m̶ Arcades make MTG great again
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Est deck cost: $173.28
Salt sum: 26.17
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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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Control

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Jeskai Barricade

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

Creature
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
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 (plst) MM3-56
Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Wall of Stolen Identity (c19) 13

Control

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Instant

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45

Instant

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Plan B

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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
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

Plan B

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (moc) 187

Removal

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Win condition

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Wall of Denial

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

Creature
Wall of Denial (plst) ARB-16
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

Win condition

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+ Dmg

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Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Creature
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Stoneskin

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

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Tower Defense

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

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147

+ Dmg

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Creature

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Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Creature
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
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
Tree of Redemption

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

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
Wall of Glare

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

Creature
Wall of Glare (uds) 25
Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact
Wall of Junk (dmr) 240
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.)

Creature
Wall of Shards (plst) CSP-23
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

Creature

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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 (stx) 262
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 (brc) 175
Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (khc) 107
Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Canopy Vista

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

Land
Canopy Vista (moc) 393
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
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 (moc) 397
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Seaside Citadel

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

Land
Seaside Citadel (dmc) 231
Selesnya Guildgate

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

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (znc) 139
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 (moc) 424
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (cmr) 493
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 (moc) 432
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 (moc) 434
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439
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

Land

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Planeswalker

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Teyo, Geometric Tactician

When Teyo enters, create a 0/4 white Wall creature token with defender and flying. +1: You and target opponent each draw a card. −2: Choose left or right. Until your next turn, each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the last chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

Planeswalker
Teyo, Geometric Tactician (cmm) 725
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

Planeswalker

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Scry

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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 (m21) 85

Scry

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Boardwipe

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (clb) 691
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) 13
Fell the Mighty

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

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (moc) 185
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 (clb) 43
Vault 75: Middle School

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile all creatures with power 4 or greater. II, III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Vault 75: Middle School (pip) 27

Boardwipe

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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
Flumph

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

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
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 Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33

Draw

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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
Perimeter Captain

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

Creature
Perimeter Captain (wwk) 16

Lifegain

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Protection

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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.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (khc) 22
Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Creature
Guard Gomazoa (plst) PCA-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
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.

Instant
Surge of Salvation (mom) 41
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 (scd) 279

Protection

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Token

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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

Token

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Buff

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Brave the Sands

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

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Spidersilk Armor

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

Enchantment
Spidersilk Armor (ddg) 32
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (moc) 240

Buff

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Exile

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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 (moc) 198
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211

Exile

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Manaramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
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
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (moc) 295
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
Overgrown Battlement

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

Creature
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Vine Trellis

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

Creature
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319

Manaramp

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Recursion

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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

Recursion

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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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Maybeboard

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (lcc) 125
Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura Shards (plst) INV-233
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 (rvr) 275
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
Cosmic Rebirth

Choose target permanent card in your graveyard. If it has mana value 3 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Cosmic Rebirth (mat) 28
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
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
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 (cmm) 848
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
Green Sun's Twilight

Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Twilight (one) 169
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 (rvr) 280
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (otc) 300
Jungle Barrier

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

Creature
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (otc) 260
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (7ed) 307
Minamo Scrollkeeper

Defender Your maximum hand size is increased by one.

Creature
Minamo Scrollkeeper (cns) 101
Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature." Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mirror Shield (thb) 234
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Restricted Office

Enchantment
Restricted Office // Lecture Hall (dsk) 227
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
Smile at Death

At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures.

Enchantment
Smile at Death (tdm) 24
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
Sporocyst

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

Creature
Sporocyst (40k) 98
Stasis Field

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

Enchantment
Stasis Field (mom) 79
Sunpetal Grove

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

Land
Sunpetal Grove (plst) M10-228
Sylvan Caryatid

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

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
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 (rvr) 290
The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender. III — You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
The Birth of Meletis (thb) 5
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
Wall of Mulch

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

Creature
Wall of Mulch (m15) 208
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79

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Deck Info

Deck stats

41 pips - 33 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
13 pips - 11 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
17 pips - 16 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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