Rune of Protection: Lands
Enchantment
: The next time a land source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #28371
Rune of Protection: Lands gives you a repeatable, activated shield against land damage — Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle kills, Maze of Ith attacks, and similar land-based threats all get blanked for one white mana per trigger. The two-mana enchantment and one-life cycling cost are real, but the upside is a permanent answer to a specific axis that most decks ignore entirely.
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 |
In Commander, Rune of Protection: Lands occupies a narrow but real slot — land-based damage plans like Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle loops and Sundering Titan lines show up enough in higher-power pods that dedicated hate is worth registering, and the cycling clause means it's never a pure dead draw. Legacy and Vintage are legal but nearly unplayed; the effect is too slow and too narrow against the threats those formats generate. Rune of Protection: Lands is a Commander card in practice, and even there it belongs in decks that have identified land-damage as a recurring problem rather than as a generalist include.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Rune of Protection: Lands sits firmly in bulk territory — it costs almost nothing to acquire and that price is unlikely to move given how narrow the effect is. Pick it up if your meta calls for it; there's no financial reason to hesitate and no financial reason to speculate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.