Green Ward
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Revised Edition
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #23956
Green Ward slaps protection from green onto a creature for one white mana and replaces itself when it resolves — that's a real effect at a real rate. It's a narrow aura that earns a slot only when green threats are prevalent enough to justify the conditional protection.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Green Ward is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, it's too situational — protection from green does real work in pods heavy on Elfball or Gaea's Cradle strategies, but it's dead cardboard against half the table otherwise. Legacy and Vintage have access to better protection effects and don't want auras that only answer one color. Green Ward is a fringe consideration at best, and only in Commander metas where green is overwhelmingly dominant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Green Ward is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable by default: there's no spike catalyst for a narrow protection aura, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.