Cards/Vintage Masters/Shelter

Shelter

{1}{W}

Instant

Vintage Masters·vma #44·Common·2014·Art by Christopher Moeller
StandardNot Legal
ModernLegal
CommanderLegal
LegacyLegal
PioneerNot Legal
VintageLegal

Oracle Text

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.

Set
Vintage Masters (VMA)
Number
#44
Rarity
Common
Artist
Christopher Moeller
Frame
2015
Border
Black
Language
EN
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil

Value

MTGO Tix
0.04

Indicative figures.

Card Knowledge

Legalities

StandardNot Legal
PioneerNot Legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal

Rulings4

6/14/2019·wotc

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

6/14/2019·wotc

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.

6/14/2019·wotc

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.

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