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Shelter - Instant

Odyssey · 2001

Market Prices

$0.24median

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Legality

PremodernLEGAL
Full Scryfall Data
Odyssey{1}{W}

Shelter

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Printings & Editions

Premodern-legal editions of Shelter — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.

Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.

Critical Rulings

"You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors."

— 2019-06-14

"Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal."

— 2019-06-14

"A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen."

— 2019-06-14

"The legality of a spell’s targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, you’ll still draw a card."

— 2019-06-14

Price History

91d · USD
$0.24▲ 4.3%

Tracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.

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Decks playing Shelter (2)