Swooping Protector
| NM | LP | MP | HP | DMG | Total | |
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Understand this card
Creature — Bird Citizen
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.)
Ability breakdown
- WotCApr 29, 2022
"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.
- WotCApr 29, 2022
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.
- WotCApr 29, 2022
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.
- WotCApr 29, 2022
If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
- WotCApr 29, 2022
Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- WotCApr 29, 2022
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
Combos
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Where you can play it
All formats
Other printings
This is the only printing — Streets of New Capenna #33.
Market & price history
Reference & links
- Artist
- Mark Behm
- Frame
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
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