Diplomatic Relations
Instant
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #18343
Diplomatic Relations gives one of your creatures protection from a chosen player for a turn cycle — relevant in threat-assessment politics but not a permanent answer to anything. At one mana, the effect is cheap enough to run in narrow archetypes, but most decks want unconditional protection or removal instead.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Diplomatic Relations occupies a political niche: one mana to make a key attacker or blocker untouchable by one opponent for a round, which matters most in archetypes that need a creature to survive long enough to activate an ability or connect for commander damage. Competitive formats — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer — have no interest in a sorcery-speed, single-target, single-turn protection spell when Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention exist at the same price point or lower. Pauper is the one format where unconditional protection at common is constrained enough that Diplomatic Relations might find fringe play, though even there the effect rarely justifies a deck slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
Diplomatic Relations is deep bulk at $0.08 — you're paying less for the card than for the sleeve. At this price floor there's essentially no downside to picking up copies, but don't expect the price to move; narrow political effects rarely appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.