Family's Favor
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- New Capenna Commander Promos #59p (rare)
Whenever you attack, put a shield counter on target attacking creature. Until end of turn, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, remove a shield counter from it. If you do, draw a card." (If a creature with a shield counter on it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Family's Favor has 3 printings, first in New Capenna Commander (2022). EDHREC ranks it #8,720 among Commander cards. It appears most in Fynn, the Fangbearer decks (1,419 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 8 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 Family's Favor
- Bedecked Brokers - New Capenna Commander, led by Perrie, the Pulverizer
Commanders that run Family's Favor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Fynn, the Fangbearer: 1,419 decks
- Perrie, the Pulverizer: 1,058 decks
- Me, the Immortal: 751 decks
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver: 547 decks
- Skullbriar, the Walking Grave: 529 decks
- Anzrag, the Quake-Mole: 498 decks
- Wulfgar of Icewind Dale: 457 decks
- Hans Eriksson: 396 decks
Often played with Family's Favor
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
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.
- : “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.
- : 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 the attacking creature loses its last shield counter at the same time it deals combat damage to a player (for example, if the attacking creature has trample and would be dealt damage by a blocker), then you will not be able to pay the cost of removing a counter when the triggered ability resolves.
- : Neither the triggered ability that puts a shield counter on a target attacking creature nor the triggered ability that removes a shield counter from it are optional.
- : Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.