Guildscorn Ward
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from multicolored.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #17549
Guildscorn Ward grants protection from multicolored, which blanks a huge swath of Commander's most powerful threats — wraths, removal spells, and combat attackers alike — for a single white mana attached to any creature. The limitation is that mono-colored decks and colorless effects still punch right through it, so the effect is powerful but not universal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Guildscorn Ward punches above its cost because multicolored spells dominate the format — most premium removal, board wipes, and haymakers have two or more colors in their mana costs, so the protection clause actively dodges the majority of interaction your opponents are likely to cast. In Pauper it's legal but fringe, where mono-colored aggro lists rarely want an Aura that doesn't advance the board. Modern and Pioneer have faster, denser removal suites that include plenty of mono-colored answers, which dilutes the protection's reliability significantly. Legacy and Vintage move so fast that a one-mana Aura offering no power boost rarely makes the cut regardless of the protection granted.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Guildscorn Ward is deep bulk — you'll pick it out of a commons box before you'd buy a single copy online. It holds no financial value, but for Commander players it's essentially free to acquire and worth sleeving in any white voltron or protection-matters build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.