Shield Broker
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Octopus Advisor
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 4
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander #174 (rare)
- Price
- $0.28 USD
When this creature enters, put a shield counter on target noncommander creature you don't control. You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Shield Broker has 5 printings, first in New Capenna Commander (2022). EDHREC ranks it #10,762 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zinnia, Valley's Voice decks (3,164 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Shield Broker
- Bedecked Brokers - New Capenna Commander, led by Perrie, the Pulverizer
- Family Matters - Bloomburrow Commander, led by Zinnia, Valley's Voice
Commanders that run Shield Broker most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zinnia, Valley's Voice: 3,164 decks
- Kenessos, Priest of Thassa: 713 decks
- Kros, Defense Contractor: 585 decks
- Perrie, the Pulverizer: 561 decks
- Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor: 198 decks
- Lo and Li, Royal Advisors: 125 decks
- Nihiloor: 77 decks
- Meneldor, Swift Savior: 27 decks
Often played with Shield Broker
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
- : Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- : If the creature loses its shield counter during combat, it will be removed from combat when it changes controllers. If it hasn't already assigned combat damage by that time, it won't get to deal combat damage.
- : "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.