Sworn Defender
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
AlliancesALL · #19
- Card type
- Creature — Human Knight
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.64 € · 1.01 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
: This creature's power becomes the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by this creature minus 1 until end of turn, and its toughness becomes 1 plus the power of that creature until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- D. Alexander Gregory
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1996-06-10
Rulings
You apply power/toughness changing effects in a series of sublayers in the following order: (a) effects from characteristic-defining abilities; (b) effects that set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (c) effects that modify power and/or toughness but don’t set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (d) changes from counters; (e) effects that switch a creature’s power and toughness. This card’s effect is always applied in (b), which means that effects applied in sublayer (c), (d), or (e) will not be overwritten; they will be applied to the new value.