Stalwart Shield-Bearers
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Rise of the EldraziROE · #46
- Card type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 2.00 € · ★ 5.24 € · 1.60 $ · ★ 12.47 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
Defender Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Austin Hsu
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-04-23
Flavour text
"Hold fast the line! Either we stop them here or we wake up in their guts!" —Tala Vertan, Makindi shieldmate
Rulings
Stalwart Shield-Bearers continually checks which creatures you control have defender and gives the bonus only to them. If an effect causes a creature with defender to lose defender (as Shoal Serpent does), Stalwart Shield-Bearers stops giving it the bonus for as long as it doesn’t have defender. On the other hand, if a spell or ability causes a creature to be able to attack as though it didn’t have defender (as Warmonger’s Chariot does), Stalwart Shield-Bearers continues to give it the bonus because it never actually loses the defender ability.