Defensive Formation
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #USG-9
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- White
Card text
Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.
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
- Greg Staples
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
"Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life." —*Song of All*, canto 873
Rulings
Damage assignment choices from Trample and other things which allow alternative damage assignments for attacking creatures are all made by you.
