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Hard Cover

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has "{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card."

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Core Set 2020
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#20341
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Hard Cover card art
Hard Cover turns every card draw into a +1/+1 counter and a ward tax, which means a single draw-heavy turn can armor up a creature beyond practical removal range. At one blue mana for an enchantment aura, the cost is negligible — and in Shabraz, the Skyshark builds that are already drawing four or five cards a turn, it's basically a free scaling buff stapled to protection.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Hard Cover is a Commander card — the singleton format's draw-matters commanders are exactly where one mana for repeating counters and ward makes sense. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, one-mana auras compete against interaction so efficient that suiting up a single creature is rarely a safe game plan, and there are strictly better protection and counter-generation options in those card pools. Hard Cover is legal in Vintage as well, but that format's power level makes an incremental value enchantment irrelevant. Stick to Commander, specifically to decks drawing three or more cards per turn cycle — below that threshold, the counter accumulation is too slow to justify the aura slot.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Hard Cover is deep bulk — a throw-in card that costs almost nothing to acquire. Bulk draw-matters pieces rarely appreciate unless a new commander spikes their demand, so don't expect the price to move.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.