Shelter
Instant
Shelter
Instant
Card Text
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 2
- Colors
- White
- Color Identity
- White
- EDHREC Rank
- #3,288
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (37)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) | #ODY-46 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | $0.16 | β |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) | #1587β | rare | en | Mandy Jurgens | β | $7.59 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) | #1587 | rare | en | Mandy Jurgens | $4.84 | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | en | Alayna Danner | $0.24 | $0.27 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) | #133 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | $0.17 | $0.54 |
| Eternal Masters (EMA) | #29 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | $0.19 | $0.38 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) | #44 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | en | Christopher Moeller | $0.25 | $7.25 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | de | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | de | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | de | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | es | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | es | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | es | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | fr | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | fr | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | fr | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | it | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | it | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) | #1587β | rare | ja | Mandy Jurgens | β | β |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) | #1587 | rare | ja | Mandy Jurgens | β | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | ja | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | ja | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Eternal Masters (EMA) | #29 | common | ja | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | ja | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | ko | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | pt | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | pt | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | pt | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | ru | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Commander Masters (CMM) | #56 | common | zhs | Alayna Danner | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | zhs | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Eternal Masters (EMA) | #29 | common | zhs | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | zhs | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) | #28 | common | zht | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
| Odyssey (ODY) | #46 | common | zht | Christopher Moeller | β | β |
Official Rulings (4)
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 doesnβt 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.
Protection from a color means that the target creature canβt be blocked by creatures of that color, canβt be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, canβt 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.
The legality of a spellβs targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, youβll still draw a card.
You canβt choose βartifactβ or βcolorlessβ as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.
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