Sanctuary Warden
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Streets of New Capenna PromosPSNC · #30s
- Card type
- Creature — Angel Soldier
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 2.86 € · ★ 4.57 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 5
- Colour
- White
Card text
Flying This creature enters with two shield counters on it. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may remove a counter from a creature or planeswalker you control. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Johannes Voss
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-04-29
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.
Sanctuary Warden's triggered ability allows you to remove any kind of counter, not just a shield counter.
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
