Card database
Protection Magic
Legal
Type line
Instant
Oracle text
Put a shield counter on each of up to three target creatures. (If a creature with a shield counter would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Rulings
- "Shield" is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.2025-06-06
- Removing a shield counter when a permanent would be dealt damage or destroyed isn't the same as regenerating that permanent.2025-06-06
- If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.2025-06-06
- Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.2025-06-06
- A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.2025-06-06
- If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.2025-06-06
Market price
$0.37
Commanders that play this card
Use over time
2 public decks with Protection Magic saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.
Jul 20This week
Often played with
Across the 2 public decks that play Protection Magic. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.
2 of 2 (100%)
2 of 2 (100%)
2 of 2 (100%)
2 of 2 (100%)
2 of 2 (100%)
1 of 2 (50%)
1 of 2 (50%)
1 of 2 (50%)
1 of 2 (50%)
1 of 2 (50%)