Printings
Shelter
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Commander Masters (CMM)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 56
Oracle Text
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 14, 2019
You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.
Source: wotc - June 14, 2019
Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.
Source: wotc - June 14, 2019
A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.
Source: wotc - June 14, 2019
The legality of a spell’s targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, you’ll still draw a card.
Source: wotc
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