Rune of Protection: Red
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Urza's Saga #40 (common)
- Price
- $0.26 USD
{W}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Rune of Protection: Red has 1 printing, first in Urza's Saga (1998). EDHREC ranks it #24,280 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tivadar of Thorn decks (34 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Rune of Protection: Red most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tivadar of Thorn: 34 decks
- Orim, Samite Healer: 15 decks
- Jo Grant: 10 decks
- Mangara of Corondor: 9 decks
- Avacyn, Guardian Angel: 5 decks
- Lord Magnus: 3 decks
- Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr: 1 decks
- Night Nurse, Healer of Heroes: 1 decks
Often played with Rune of Protection: Red
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Can be used even when there is no damage to prevent. It prevents the next damage (if any) from the source this turn.
- : A source of damage is a permanent, a spell on the stack (including one that creates a permanent), or any object referred to by an object on the stack. A source doesn't need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice.