Heroic Defiance
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 unless it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30351
Heroic Defiance gives a creature +2/+2 and hexproof until end of turn for two mana — it trades a combat trick slot for real protection against targeted removal at instant speed. Narrow enough that only decks actively wanting to protect a key creature or push through blockers will run it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Heroic Defiance fills the role of a low-cost protection spell that doubles as a combat trick — useful in voltron or stompy builds where one creature's survival is the whole game plan. In Pauper, where commons compete for the same slot, it faces stiff competition from Apostle's Blessing and Ranger's Guile, both of which offer broader or cheaper protection. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too tuned for a reactive two-mana trick to matter. Heroic Defiance is realistically a Commander-only card, and even there it needs the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Heroic Defiance is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in, not a purchase. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no reason to expect it to climb.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.