Festival of the Guildpact
Instant
Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
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- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24697
Festival of the Guildpact gives your entire team a temporary size boost and makes them untouchable by multicolored spells for a turn — all for one white mana. It's a narrow combat trick, but in the right multicolored shell it trades at a massive mana advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Festival of the Guildpact is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's realistically a Commander card. Competitive Legacy and Modern have no interest in a one-shot protection spell at sorcery-adjacent timing when counterspells and removal are cheaper and more reliable. In Commander, it earns a slot only in decks where your creatures are consistently mono-colored — white tokens, mono-white beatdown, or Orzhov aggro — because the +1/+1 bonus and blanket protection from multicolored spells can swing a combat step or blank a board wipe like Cyclonic Rift.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Festival of the Guildpact is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. The price reflects its narrow application; don't expect it to climb.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.