Kry Shield
Artifact
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: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by target creature you control. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its mana value.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $2.14
- EDHREC rank
- #30322
Kry Shield turns any creature into a pseudo-Fog button — tap it to give a blocker +0/+3 until end of turn, which is narrow enough that most competitive Commander tables will never find a slot for it. This is a role-player at best, and most decks have better ways to protect creatures or survive combat.
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 |
Kry Shield is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is nowhere obvious. In Commander it's too slow and too conditional — paying mana to activate a tap effect that only pumps toughness rarely swings a game decided by combo or overwhelming board states. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it; those formats move faster than Kry Shield can respond. Oathbreaker shares Commander's pod-game dynamics, so the same criticism applies.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$2.14 cheap tier
At $2.14, Kry Shield sits in the cheap tier but prices itself above its actual utility — you're paying a small premium for an old card with negligible demand rather than competitive scarcity. It holds that price through collector curiosity alone, not gameplay value.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.