Elspeth Resplendent
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth
- Loyalty
- 5
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna #441 (mythic)
+1: Choose up to one target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter and a counter from among flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance on it.
−3: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield with a shield counter on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: Create five 3/3 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Elspeth Resplendent has 8 printings, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #5,385 among Commander cards. It appears most in Giada, Font of Hope decks (4,428 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 Elspeth Resplendent most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Giada, Font of Hope: 4,428 decks
- Tidus, Yuna's Guardian: 3,718 decks
- Perrie, the Pulverizer: 991 decks
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver: 899 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief: 459 decks
- Sigarda, Font of Blessings: 437 decks
- Kros, Defense Contractor: 389 decks
- Odric, Lunarch Marshal: 308 decks
Often played with Elspeth Resplendent
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- : 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.
- : 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 counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
- : If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
- : For Elspeth's first ability, its controller chooses flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance, then that counter and the +1/+1 counter are placed on the target creature at the same time.
- : “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.