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    Shelter

    Instant

    Shelter

    Illustrated by Alayna Danner

    EDHREC Rank #3,297
    Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

    From the storm of hellfire, the angel emerged, smiling.

    Rulings (4)

    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.

    Jun 14, 2019

    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.

    Jun 14, 2019

    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.

    Jun 14, 2019

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Digital

    Community & retro

    Printings (9)

    Shelter — Commander Masters
    CMM#56$0.22
    Commander Masters
    Shelter — The List
    PLST#ODY-46$0.17
    The List