Mark of Asylum
Enchantment
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $1.00
- EDHREC rank
- #16186
Mark of Asylum shuts down noncombat damage to your creatures wholesale — sweepers like Earthquake, pingers, and spell-based pings all bounce off your board while opponents' creatures stay vulnerable. Two mana, no upkeep cost, and the protection applies to every creature you control, making it one of the most efficient defensive enchantments in white.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Firesong and Sunspeaker
Firesong and Sunspeaker runs burn spells that deal noncombat damage to everything, and Mark of Asylum draws a hard line around your own creatures — letting you fire off Starstorm or Fault Line without losing your own board while opponents' creatures get swept.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mark of Asylum is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format gives it maximum reach since one copy protects every creature you'll ever deploy, and the prevalence of damage-based sweepers, Purphoros triggers, and burn-heavy strategies makes the effect relevant in most pods. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no play; the formats are too fast and too focused on immediate interaction for a passive enchantment to matter. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where it could pull weight in the right shell, but Commander is where Mark of Asylum earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.00 cheap tier
At $1.00, Mark of Asylum sits comfortably in the budget-staple tier — it's a niche card with a real effect, and that price reflects its narrow but loyal audience. Supply is modest and demand is consistent enough from Commander players that it's unlikely to crater further.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.