Defender en-Vec
Creature — Human Cleric
Fading 4 (This creature enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this creature: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30573
Defender en-Vec is a three-mana 2/6 with protection from black and red that can tap to prevent all combat damage to you until end of turn — a fog staple on a body. The recurring damage prevention is genuinely powerful in Commander, but the card is a fringe pick at best, outclassed by creatures that block and generate value simultaneously.
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, Defender en-Vec occupies a narrow niche in pillow-fort and life-gain strategies that want repeatable damage prevention, but most tables will run Ghostly Prison or Propaganda instead. In Pauper, the protection from black and red is more relevant against aggressive red decks, though it sees essentially no competitive play there either. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the effect is too slow and too narrow for those formats. Defender en-Vec is a casual Commander card, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Defender en-Vec is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common bin before you'll find it on a vendor page. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push this off the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.