Keep Out
Instant
Choose one —
• Keep Out deals 4 damage to target tapped creature.
• Destroy target enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #16299
Keep Out stops all creatures from attacking you until your next turn — a one-mana fog that taxes opponents into finding another target. At instant speed for a single white mana, the rate is absurd; the ceiling is any deck that wants to survive long enough to assemble an engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brigid, Clachan's Heart
Brigid, Clachan's Heart rewards tapping your own creatures to protect yourself, and Keep Out slots directly into that defensive shell — it buys a full turn of safety while Brigid's tap-down effects accumulate across the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Keep Out pulls its weight as a one-mana fog against the whole table, which is where the math flips in its favor — a single card neutralizing three opponents' combat steps is the kind of asymmetry white defensive decks are built to exploit. Competitive formats are less forgiving: Modern and Legacy have access to faster win conditions and more resilient threat density, so a one-turn fog rarely does enough work outside of very specific control or combo-protection shells. In Pauper and Pioneer the card is legal but sees minimal play, since dedicated combat-based aggro in those formats often closes games before a single defensive instant changes the calculus. Keep Out is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Keep Out is deep bulk — you're filling a slot for pennies. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless a new commander creates sudden demand, so treat it as a cheap pickup, not a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Brigid, Clachan's Heart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.