Personal Sanctuary
Enchantment
During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #22179
Personal Sanctuary shuts off all damage you'd take during your turn — no burn triggers, no Sulfuric Vortex, no land-drop pain from Mana Confluence or Shocks — for three mana at enchantment speed. It's a niche piece of protection that earns its slot in decks built around self-damage or heavy red matchups, but does nothing offensively and collects dust everywhere else.
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 |
Personal Sanctuary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — the only format where symmetrical damage enchantments and multi-player attrition strategies make this effect worth a card slot. In Legacy and Modern, three mana for damage prevention during your own turn is too slow and too narrow to compete; burn decks end the game before this resolves, and combo decks don't care. Vintage is the same story at an even faster speed. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's multiplayer logic, so the same slug-and-survive archetypes apply, just compressed.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Personal Sanctuary is bulk — easy to pick up as a one-of for any deck that wants it without a second thought. Bulk enchantments this narrow rarely spike, so expect it to stay in this range unless a high-profile Commander printing pushes demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.