Pause for Reflection
Instant
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #13706
Pause for Reflection gives your whole board hexproof at instant speed for a single green mana — that's a blowout against targeted removal or a combat trick that invalidates an entire attack. It's a one-time effect with no lasting protection, but the ceiling is high enough that green creature decks should at least consider it over more expensive fog variants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Pause for Reflection earns its slot in go-wide green decks as a combat trick that can invalidate a lethal attack or counter a Cyclonic Rift at a critical moment — one mana to protect an entire board is efficient by any measure. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play in those formats; competitive decks in those environments want permanent hexproof or counterspells rather than a single-use shield. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Pause for Reflection has the most theoretical appeal, since budget creature strategies there can't easily access other board-wide protection.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Pause for Reflection sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up as an afterthought in a order, not tracking it down. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless they find a competitive home, and this one's niche enough that the price is likely to stay right where it is.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.