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Rune of Protection: Blue

Enchantment

{W}: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Urza's Saga
Price
$0.19
EDHREC rank
#24231
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Rune of Protection: Blue card art
Rune of Protection: Blue gives you a repeatable damage prevention shield against the most spell-dense color in the game, and cycling it away when the matchup doesn't call for it means it's never a dead card. At two mana with a one-mana activation, the cost is low enough that it earns a slot wherever blue is a consistent threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Rune of Protection: Blue shines most at tables where blue is omnipresent — which is most tables — letting you blank a Thassa's Oracle trigger, a Cyclonic Rift bounce, or a lethal flying swing for a single white mana. Pauper is where it sees its most serious competitive consideration, functioning as a sideboard tool against blue aggro and tempo strategies where repeated small activations accumulate real value. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but rarely want it — the formats move too fast for a two-mana enchantment that doesn't immediately impact the board. The cycling clause is the honest reason to respect Rune of Protection: Blue across all these formats: a card that converts to a fresh draw when irrelevant is always worth more than a card that just sits dead in hand.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.19 bulk tier

At $0.19, Rune of Protection: Blue is pure bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not tracking it on a price site. Bulk enchantments with cycling don't spike; this one holds its floor and nothing more.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.