MScore: 8.9/10

Shelter

{1} {W}

Instantcommon

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Good strategists seize opportunities. Great strategists make their own.

Illustrated by Christopher Moeller · Vintage Masters · #44

Rulings for Shelter

2019-06-14
Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.

2019-06-14
A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.

2019-06-14
You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.

2019-06-14
The legality of a spell’s targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, you’ll still draw a card.

All Printings

The List#ODY-462024common Secret Lair Drop#15872024rare Secret Lair Drop#1587★2024rare Commander Masters#562023common Jumpstart: Historic Horizons#1332021common Modern Horizons#28

Format Legality

Duellegal

Brawllegal

Pennylegal

Predhlegal

Futurenot legal

Legacylegal

Modernlegal

Pauperlegal

Alchemynot legal

Pioneernot legal

Vintagelegal

Historiclegal

Standardnot legal

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