Brokers' Safeguard
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Alchemy: New CapennaYSNC · #20
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White Blue
Card text
Exile target nonartifact creature you control. It perpetually gains "This creature enters with an additional shield counter on it." Then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Borja Pindado
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-06-02
Rulings
"Shield" is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.
A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.