Contractual Safeguard
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- New Capenna Commander #14 (rare)
- Price
- $2.66 USD
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a shield counter on a creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Choose a kind of counter on a creature you control. Put a counter of that kind on each other creature you control.
Contractual Safeguard has 3 printings, first in New Capenna Commander (2022). EDHREC ranks it #9,691 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tidus, Yuna's Guardian decks (1,861 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs 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 Contractual Safeguard
- Bedecked Brokers - New Capenna Commander, led by Perrie, the Pulverizer
Commanders that run Contractual Safeguard most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tidus, Yuna's Guardian: 1,861 decks
- Perrie, the Pulverizer: 1,300 decks
- Kros, Defense Contractor: 1,274 decks
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver: 1,258 decks
- Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain: 648 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief: 517 decks
- Arwen, Mortal Queen: 430 decks
- Aragorn, Company Leader: 176 decks
Often played with Contractual Safeguard
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may choose the shield counter for the second part of the spell.
- : 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.
- : “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.
- : 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.