Sanctuary Warden
- Mana cost
- {4}{W}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Angel Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna #343 (mythic)
- Price
- $1.38 USD
Flying
This creature enters with two shield counters on it.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may remove a counter from a creature or planeswalker you control. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
Sanctuary Warden has 5 printings, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #7,862 among Commander cards. It appears most in Giada, Font of Hope decks (6,692 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Sanctuary Warden most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Giada, Font of Hope: 6,692 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine: 3,661 decks
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver: 449 decks
- Perrie, the Pulverizer: 223 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief: 199 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai: 39 decks
- Djeru, With Eyes Open: 31 decks
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion: 8 decks
Often played with Sanctuary Warden
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- : Sanctuary Warden's triggered ability allows you to remove any kind of counter, not just a shield counter.
- : "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.