Artifact Ward
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources.
Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Antiquities
- Price
- $0.54
- EDHREC rank
- #25549
Artifact Ward makes its enchanted creature unblockable by artifact creatures and untargetable by artifact spells and abilities — relevant protection in artifact-heavy metas, but a do-nothing card everywhere else. At one blue mana, the price is right; the problem is that most tables don't run enough artifacts for this to justify a slot over broader protection like Swiftfoot Boots.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Artifact Ward is a niche answer to artifact-tribal decks — if your meta is full of Breya, Etherium Shaper or Osgir, the Reconstructor tables, it can protect a key creature from Goblin Welder activations and Karn, Silver Golem beats, but it does nothing against the far more common threats of creature combat and sorcery-speed removal. Legacy and Vintage are the formats where Artifact Ward has the most historical plausibility, given the density of artifact mana and Mishra's Workshop strategies, though even there it sees essentially no play. Pauper is the closest it gets to a real home, where Affinity is a genuine meta pillar and protecting a creature from Frogmite blocks is a real axis of play, but the effect still competes with more flexible options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.54 bulk tier
At $0.54, Artifact Ward sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a curiosity. Don't expect the price to move; the card's narrow application keeps both demand and ceiling low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.