
Choose one —
• Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."
Defend the Rider has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #3,181 among Commander cards. It appears most in Bello, Bard of the Brambles decks (2,138 on EDHREC).
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Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.