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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99
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 (plst) M19-212

Commander

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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

Anthem

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Beaters

Qty: 11 Price: $28.49
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (tdc) 316
Fortified Rampart
Defender
Creature - Wall
Fortified Rampart (bfz) 27
Glacial Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature - Wall
Glacial Wall (ema) 53
Grappling Sundew
Defender, reach
: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)
Creature - Plant
Grappling Sundew (grn) 131
Jaddi Offshoot
Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Plant
Jaddi Offshoot (tdc) 260
Steel Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Steel Wall (ddf) 41
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (cmm) 939
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
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 (csp) 23
Wall of Vines
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Vines (jmp) 443
Weathered Sentinels
Defender, reach, vigilance, 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 - Wall
Weathered Sentinels (tdc) 336

Beaters

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Bounce

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79
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

Bounce

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Counters

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Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (msc) 147
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Dispel
Counter target instant spell.
Instant
Dispel (plst) BFZ-76
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (tmt) 47
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46

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Draw

Qty: 20 Price: $98.38
Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (tdc) 250
Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (tdc) 250
Collected Company
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Collected Company (dtk) 177
Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (ecc) 45
Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (ecc) 45
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Sylvan Library
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179
Sylvan Library
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179
The Pride of Hull Clade
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
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
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (plst) ONS-298
Wall of Mulch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Mulch (plst) ONS-298
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (tdc) 138
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
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

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Enablers

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Assault Formation
Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Assault Formation (tdc) 246
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.
: Untap target creature.
Enchantment
High Alert (plst) RNA-182

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $1.05
Angelic Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Creature - Wall
Angelic Wall (m14) 4
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (tle) 170
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $282.76
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (fic) 377
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
Forbidding Watchtower
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Land
Forbidding Watchtower (plst) 10E-352
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (trk) 325
Fortified Village
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Fortified Village (msc) 245
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (msc) 248
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (msc) 250
Homeward Path
: Add
.
: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.
Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 319
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
: Add
.
,
: Untap target legendary permanent.
Legendary Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
: Add
.
: Return Oboro to its owner's hand.
Legendary Land
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds (sok) 164
Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
: Add
.
,
: Target legendary creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legendary Land
Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers (plst) CHK-280
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (trk) 317
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (msc) 257
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Razorverge Thicket
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Razorverge Thicket (msc) 259
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (ecc) 166
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (msc) 272
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
Temple of Plenty
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 Plenty (fic) 437
Tendo Ice Bridge
This land enters with a charge counter on it.
: Add
.
, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Tendo Ice Bridge (m3c) 393
Windbrisk Heights
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.
Land
Windbrisk Heights (tdc) 411
Wooded Bastion
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Wooded Bastion (plst) 2XM-332
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425

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Protection

Qty: 10 Price: $36.64
Brave the Elements
Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.
Instant
Brave the Elements (c14) 66
Dive Down
Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Dive Down (fdn) 588
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
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
Gods Willing
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)
Scry 1.
Instant
Gods Willing (clu) 63
Grappling Sundew
Defender, reach
: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)
Creature - Plant
Grappling Sundew (grn) 131
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
Rebuff the Wicked
Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.
Instant
Rebuff the Wicked (tsr) 35
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (msc) 216
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.
Legendary Planeswalker - Teyo
Teyo, the Shieldmage (plst) WAR-32

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Pump

Qty: 8 Price: $4.88
Bar the Door
Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.
Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Bar the Door
Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.
Instant
Bar the Door (dka) 2
Captain America's Shield
Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +0/+8 and has vigilance.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Captain America's Shield (msh) 244
Solidarity
Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.
Instant
Solidarity (uds) 20
Solidarity
Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.
Instant
Solidarity (8ed) 46
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275

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Ramp

Qty: 12 Price: $30.16
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
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
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
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
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
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
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Vine Trellis
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Add
.
Creature - Plant Wall
Vine Trellis (gvl) 4
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (tdc) 278

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 3 Price: $6.47
Ascend from Avernus
Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.
Sorcery
Ascend from Avernus (clb) 5
Raise the Past
Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 22
Raise the Past
Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 22

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 5 Price: $27.45
Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (msc) 147
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (msc) 169
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 (msc) 141
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 (msc) 141
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ice) 54

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

36 pips - 32 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
25 pips - 23 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
30 pips - 28 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
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