Swooping Protector
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Bird Citizen
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna #33 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
Flash
Flying
This creature enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Swooping Protector has 1 printing, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #24,942 among Commander cards. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Often played with Swooping Protector
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.
- : "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.
- : Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- : 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.