Spara's Bodyguard
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Alchemy: New CapennaYSNC · #28
- Card type
- Creature — Rhino Warrior
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White Blue Green
Card text
When Spara's Bodyguard enters the battlefield, you may choose a creature card in your hand. If you do, it perpetually gains "This creature enters the battlefield with an additional shield counter on it." Otherwise, put a shield counter on Spara's Bodyguard. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) At the beginning of each combat, Spara's Bodyguard gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each shield counter among other creatures you control.
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
- Ilse Gort
- 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.