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Concerted Defense

{U}

Instant

ZNRZendikar Rising#52uncommon
Foil

"You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"

Border
black
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 960
Illustrator
Chris Rallis
Found in
Zendikar Rising MTGO Redemption Foil · Zendikar Rising MTGO Redemption · 6 more
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1} plus an additional {1} for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

Plays as: Counterspell

Market · per finishspark updated 1h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+4.8%
$0.22
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.29
$0.14 low$0.06 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.22· across 1 printing

Rulings

3 · latest Sep 25, 2020 · one tap opens all
  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    An ability referring to the number of creatures in your party gets a number from zero to four. Such abilities never ask which creatures are in your party, and you never have to designate specific creatures as being in your party. You can’t choose to exclude creatures from this count to lower the number.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    If a creature has more than one party creature type, and there are multiple ways to count that creature that could result in a different number of creatures in your party, the highest such number is used. For example, if you control a Cleric and a Cleric Wizard, the number of creatures in your party is two. You can’t choose to have it be just one by counting the Cleric Wizard first as a Cleric.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    To determine “the number of creatures in your party,” check whether you control a Cleric, whether you control a Rogue, whether you control a Warrior, and whether you control a Wizard. The number is the total number of those checks to which you answered yes. Each creature you control can be counted for only one of those checks.