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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
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.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Arcades, the Strategist (tsr) 371
Color tag templates(None)
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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.61

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BoardWipe

Qty: 4 Price: $2.02
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (drc) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.27
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 (tdc) 115
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.23
Fell the Mighty
Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.
Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (mkc) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.27
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 (tdc) 131
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30

BoardWipe

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Bounce

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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 - Wall
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.42

Bounce

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Draw

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Academy Wall
Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Wall
Academy Wall (dmu) 41
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
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.)
Creature - Spirit
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Mentor of the Meek
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Human Soldier
Mentor of the Meek (2x2) 17
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.33
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Starfish
Plagon, Lord of the Beach (j25) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $1.49
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.
Legendary Creature - Cat Citizen
Rigo, Streetwise Mentor (snc) 215
Color tag templates(None)
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Rune-Sealed Wall
Defender
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.10
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
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
Wall of Junk (dmr) 240
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.28
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (plst) ONS-298
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.18
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (tdc) 138
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.36
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
Wall of Runes (m21) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21

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Enchantment

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Animate Wall
Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Wall (6ed) 1
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.49

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Evasion

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Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (tdc) 303
Color tag templates(None)
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Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (mul) 12
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29
Towering Viewpoint
Defender, reach
Leap of Faith —
: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Towering Viewpoint (acr) 77
Color tag templates(None)
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Finisher

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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 - Giant
Towering Titan (tdc) 276
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.30

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Land

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Access Tunnel
: Add
.
,
: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Access Tunnel (tdc) 337
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.38
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.36
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (blc) 295
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.82
Canopy Vista
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (pip) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.36
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.38
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (who) 273
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.72
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (eoc) 158
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (eoc) 159
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.30
Flooded Grove
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (tdc) 364
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (j25) 93
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.24
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (tdc) 367
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.37
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (dsc) 284
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.31
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (j25) 84
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.19
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (j25) 81
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Port Town
As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.22
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.32
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (c19) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $5.00
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (blc) 329
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.33
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (pip) 297
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.57
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Enlightenment (eoc) 186
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.28
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (eoc) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (tdc) 413
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.32

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $1.78
Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (plst) WWK-16
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.07
Wall of Essence
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Essence (sth) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29

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Protection

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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 (c16) 60
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $6.56
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 - Shapeshifter Eldrazi
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (tdc) 316
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.65
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 - Wall
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.38
Fortified Rampart
Defender
Creature - Wall
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
Glacial Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature - Wall
Glacial Wall (7ed) 78
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (who) 233
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $13.37
Hover Barrier
Defender, flying
Creature - Illusion Wall
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.42
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (tdc) 102
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.62
Resolute Watchdog
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature - Dog
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.30
Riptide Turtle
Flash
Defender
Creature - Turtle
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.09
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (mrd) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Stoneskin
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.
Enchantment - Aura
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $1.72
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (plst) ARB-16
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.31
Wall of Frost
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.28
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.)
Snow Creature - Wall
Wall of Shards (plst) CSP-23
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $5.45

Protection

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Pump

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Bar the Door
Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.
Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.20
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.22
Unnatural Growth
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (inr) 223
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $3.08

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $18.17
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fic) 334
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.34
Axebane Guardian
Defender
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
Creature - Human Druid
Axebane Guardian (tdc) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32
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 (tdc) 253
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.39
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (rvr) 347
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $0.75
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 - Plant
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.23
Kodama's Reach
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 - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (lcc) 245
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $2.09
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (ncc) 303
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.42
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (plst) MIR-235
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.36
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.75
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (plst) PLS-17
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.33
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.63
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 - Saga
The Birth of Meletis (plst) THB-5
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.28
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (mmq) 285
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.32

Ramp

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Removal

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fca) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $5.47
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (dmu) 58
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.36
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 (mb2) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.09
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.41

Removal

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Stax

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Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Artifact
Meekstone (mb2) 227
Color tag templates(None)
$9.49 $5.11

Stax

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Tokens

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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 - Human Cleric
Wingmantle Chaplain (tdc) 141
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.29

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $1.58
Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute
(
, 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.)
Creature - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 314
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.32
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 - Golem
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.30

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Deck stats

34 pips - 27 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
19 pips - 17 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
22 pips - 18 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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