Battle Rampart

Creature — Wall 1/3, 2R (3)

Defender

{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword."
—Yannash, outpost builder

Illus. Steve Prescott

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Grotag Siege-Runner

Creature — Goblin Rogue 2/1, 1R (2)

{R}, Sacrifice Grotag Siege-Runner: Destroy target creature with defender. Grotag Siege-Runner deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"I don't think he's bringing in the mail . . . ."
—Nundari, Sea Gate militia captain

Illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time the ability resolves, the ability is countered. Its controller won't be dealt damage.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Guard Duty

Enchantment — Aura, W (1)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has defender.

"I was told these were standard issue. Do I look standard to you?"

Illus. Karl Kopinski

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Guard Gomazoa

Creature — Jellyfish 1/3, 2U (3)

Defender, flying

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

It lingers near the outposts of the Makindi Trenches, inadvertently granting another layer of defense.

Illus. Rob Alexander

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Mnemonic Wall

Creature — Wall 0/4, 4U (5)

Defender

When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'd build an entire fortress of them if I could."
—Mzali, Lighthouse archmage

Illus. Vance Kovacs

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Ogre Sentry

Creature — Ogre Warrior 3/3, 1R (2)

Defender

"You have to appreciate the genius of it. Why bother building defenses when you can just fill the pass with angry ogres?"
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Illus. Eric Deschamps

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Overgrown Battlement

Creature — Wall 0/4, 1G (2)

Defender

{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each creature with defender you control.

"Our enemy is nothing less than the end of all life. We shall not want for allies."
—The War Diaries

Illus. Franz Vohwinkel

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: Overgrown Battlement's activated ability is a mana ability. No player can respond to it (such as by destroying a creature with defender).

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Phantasmal Abomination

Creature — Illusion 5/5, 1UU (3)

Defender

When Phantasmal Abomination becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Create an illusion so strong that it becomes another's reality, and you can become the master of all.

Illus. Goran Josic

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: If Phantasmal Abomination becomes the target of a spell or ability, Phantasmal Abomination's ability triggers and goes on the stack on top of that spell or ability. Phantasmal Abomination's ability will resolve (causing it to be sacrificed) first. Unless the spell or ability has another target, it will then be countered when it tries to resolve for having no legal targets.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Rage Nimbus

Creature — Elemental 5/3, 2R (3)

Defender, flying

{1}{R}: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

The settlement knew there was something strange about the cloud when the old priest Mandli suddenly grabbed an axe and ran screaming into the hills.

Illus. Vincent Proce

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: If, during its controller's declare attackers step, a creature affected by Rage Nimbus's activated ability is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or is affected by "summoning sickness," then that creature doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having that creature attack, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so the creature doesn't have to attack in that case either.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Reinforced Bulwark

Artifact Creature — Wall 0/4, 3 (3)

Defender

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Built of wood and iron. Held together by hope and prayer.

Illus. Ryan Pancoast

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Soulbound Guardians

Creature — Kor Spirit 4/5, 4W (5)

Defender, flying

The kor's most righteous dead are given the greatest reward: an eternity tied to the land they so cherish.

Illus. Erica Yang

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Creature — Human Soldier 0/3, 1W (2)

Defender

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

"Hold fast the line! Either we stop them here or we wake up in their guts!"
—Tala Vertan, Makindi shieldmate

Illus. Austin Hsu

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: Stalwart Shield-Bearers continually checks which creatures you control have defender and gives the bonus only to them. If an effect causes a creature with defender to lose defender (as Shoal Serpent does), Stalwart Shield-Bearers stops giving it the bonus for as long as it doesn't have defender. On the other hand, if a spell or ability causes a creature to be able to attack as though it didn't have defender (as Warmonger's Chariot does), Stalwart Shield-Bearers continues to give it the bonus because it never actually loses the defender ability.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Vent Sentinel

Creature — Elemental 2/4, 3R (4)

Defender

{1}{R}, {T}: Vent Sentinel deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures with defender you control.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone."
—The War Diaries

Illus. Chris Rahn

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Wall of Omens

Creature — Wall 0/4, 1W (2)

Defender

When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi."
—Expedition journal entry

Illus. James Paick

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact — Equipment, 2 (2)

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Equip {3}

The best defense is a good offense.

Illus. Warren Mahy

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: The second ability doesn't cause the equipped creature to lose defender. It just lets it attack.
• 6/15/2010: If the equipped creature doesn't have defender, the second ability simply doesn't affect it.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern