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.

Crashing Drawbridge

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Wall of Roots

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

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Flumph

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

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.

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.)

Wall of Denial

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

Wall of Frost

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

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.

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 Sporocyst enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Perimeter Captain

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

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have Wall of Stolen Identity 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 Wall of Stolen Identity.

Hover Barrier

Overgrown Battlement

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

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.

Axebane Guardian

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

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.

Weathered Sentinels

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

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

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

Sunscape Familiar

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

Suspicious Bookcase

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

Errant, Street Artist

Flash
Defender, haste
{1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Riptide Turtle

Carven Caryatid

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

Shield-Wall Sentinel

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

Wall of Glare

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

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.)

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.)

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.

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Vine Trellis

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

Resolute Watchdog

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

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Teyo, Geometric Tactician

When Teyo, Geometric Tactician 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.

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.

Steel Wall

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.
Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Wall of Mulch

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

The Fall of Lord Konda

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 4 or greater.
II — Each player gains control of all permanents they own.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Fragment of Konda

Defender
When Fragment of Konda dies, draw a card.

The Fall of Lord Konda // Fragment of Konda

Wingmantle Chaplain

Defender
When Wingmantle Chaplain 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.

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.

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Guard Gomazoa.

Geist of the Archives

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.)

Jungle Barrier

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

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.

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.)

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.

Fortified Rampart

Glacial Wall

Dormant Sliver

All Sliver creatures have defender.
All Slivers have "When this permanent enters, draw a card."

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets.
When Wall of Nets leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with Wall of Nets to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Excavated Wall

Defender
{1}, {T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Shifting Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Shifting Wall enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Saruli Caretaker

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

Secret Door

Defender
{4}{U}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Ulvenwald Captive

Defender
{T}: Add {G}.
{5}{G}{G}: Transform Ulvenwald Captive.

Ulvenwald Abomination

Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination

Portcullis Vine

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

Wall of Hope

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

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.

Wall of Mourning

Defender
When Wall of Mourning enters, exile a card from the top of your library face down for each opponent you have.
Coven — At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, put a card exiled with Wall of Mourning into its owner's hand.

Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever Pride Guardian blocks, you gain 3 life.

Cathedral Membrane

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Defender
When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Basilica Guards

Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Wall of Ice

Traproot Kami

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Wall of Vines

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

Clockwork Drawbridge

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

Larder Zombie

Defender
Tap three untapped creatures you control: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Novice Knight

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
As long as Novice Knight is enchanted or equipped, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Dragon's Eye Sentry

Thoughtbound Phantasm

Defender
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Thoughtbound Phantasm.
As long as Thoughtbound Phantasm has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Thraben Gargoyle

Defender
{6}: Transform Thraben Gargoyle.

Stonewing Antagonizer

Thraben Gargoyle // Stonewing Antagonizer

Wall of Wood

Order of the Stars

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
As Order of the Stars enters, choose a color.
Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.

Wall of Tanglecord

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

Expel the Interlopers

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

Brave the Sands

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

Forest

Plains

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.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Stoneskin

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

Tower Defense

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

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Dawn

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Return all creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Dusk // Dawn

Fell the Mighty

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

Island

Command Tower

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

Bar the Door

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

Sol Ring

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

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.

Seaside Citadel

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

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.

Swords to Plowshares

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

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