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"Find me cards equivalent to: Rootborn Defenses"

Equivalent cards to Rootborn Defenses (Instant, White, gives indestructible/protection to your creatures and/or populates):
1. Make a Stand — Instant, White, gives your creatures indestructible until end of turn.
2. Unbreakable Formation — Instant, White, gives indestructible (optionally with +1/+1 counters and vigilance on your turn).
3. Valorous Stance — Instant, White, gives indestructible to a single creature or destroys a big creature.

None exactly combine populate with indestructibility like Rootborn Defenses, but these are the closest for white instants that grant indestructibility. Populate is mostly unique to Rootborn Defenses for instants.

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Make a Stand

Rootborn Defenses

Unbreakable Formation

Valorous Stance

Make a Stand #26 Instant

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    Cardkingdom 0.39 USD / 1.99 USD
    Manapool / 0.39 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.31 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.49 USD 0.17 USD

    Legalities

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    Text

    Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroythem.)

    Rootborn Defenses #26 Instant

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    Abilities/Keywords

    Populate

    Rules

  • Rootborn Defenses affects only creatures you control after populating at the time it resolves. The creature token you create will gain indestructible, but creatures you begin to control later in the turn will not.
  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token will trigger when the new token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied token will also work.
  • If you choose to copy a creature token that's a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.
  • If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
  • Populate doesn't target the creature token you're copying. You choose that creature token as you're taking the populate action. You can choose any creature token you control. If a spell or ability causes you to create a creature token and then instructs you to populate, you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.
  • The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.
  • The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.

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    Cardmarket / 0.38 EUR 0.15 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 0.99 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.43 USD 0.11 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.41 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

    Unbreakable Formation #7052 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
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  • Unbreakable Formation affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain indestructible or vigilance and they won't get a +1/+1 counter.
  • Addendum abilities of instant spells apply while the spell is resolving, not immediately after casting it. If the spell is countered, you don't get the addendum bonus.
  • If an effect copies a spell with an addendum ability while it's on the stack, the copy wasn't cast at all, so you won't get the addendum bonus.

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    Tcgplayer 1.38 USD / 1.93 USD
    Cardkingdom / 2.79 USD 1.79 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.82 EUR 2.51 EUR
    Manapool / 1.8 USD 1.43 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1counteron each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

    Valorous Stance #154 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.32 EUR 0.28 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.37 USD 0.5 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Choose one — • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don'tdestroyit.) •Destroytarget creature with toughness 4 or greater.