Bold Defense

Commanders that run Bold Defense most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Doctor Spectrum: 1 decks

Often played with Bold Defense

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Cunning Geysermage
• Coralhelm Chronicler
• Roost of Drakes
• Voyager Drake
• Tolarian Emissary
• Benalish Lancer
• Spell Contortion
• Benalish Heralds
• Blinding Spray
• Break of Day

Rulings

• 2009-10-01: Only creatures you control as Bold Defense resolves are affected.
• 2009-10-01: If a creature doesn't have first strike, granting it first strike after combat damage has been dealt in the first combat damage step won't prevent it from dealing combat damage. It will still assign and deal its combat damage in the second combat damage step.
• 2024-11-08: If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
• 2024-11-08: If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
• 2024-11-08: To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
• 2024-11-08: If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
• 2024-11-08: The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
• 2024-11-08: If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.