Lethal Protection
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man Eternal
- Price
- $1.72
- EDHREC rank
- #14937
Lethal Protection lets a creature phase out at instant speed, dodging removal, blockers, and board wipes for a single turn — all for one mana. Eddie Brock is the card's natural home, but any deck that lives and dies by one creature treats this as a cheap, reusable safety net.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock's gameplan collapses without his symbiote, so Lethal Protection is effectively a one-mana 'keep your commander' spell — phasing out Eddie in response to a wrath or targeted removal means he returns untapped and ready to keep generating value.
Venom, Deadly Devourer
Venom, Deadly Devourer stacks counters and feeds off creatures dying, so protecting him through a board wipe with Lethal Protection means that accumulated investment doesn't reset — he comes back the following turn with everything intact.
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 |
Lethal Protection is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander, where protecting a single high-investment commander is often worth a dedicated slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's outclassed by free protection like Daze or Flusterstorm, and the creature-centric use case rarely aligns with those formats' game plans. In Commander, a one-mana instant that phases a creature out until your next turn is a clean answer to exile-based removal, wraths, and combat tricks that targeting alone wouldn't stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.72 cheap tier
At $1.72, Lethal Protection sits comfortably in budget range — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any deck that wants it. It's a low-print-run Universes Beyond card, so that floor is unlikely to drop further as Eddie Brock and Venom decks keep it in consistent demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Eddie Brock
- Venom, Deadly Devourer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.