Voice of the Vermin
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Streets of New CapennaSNC · #163
- Card type
- Creature — Human Citizen
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.03 € · ★ 0.12 € · 0.15 $ · ★ 0.16 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
This creature enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) Whenever this creature attacks, target creature you control has base power and toughness 4/4 until end of turn.
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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Irina Nordsol
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-04-29
Rulings
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.
“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.