Shielded Passage
Instant
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #20598
Shielded Passage prevents all damage to one creature until end of turn for a single white mana — clean protection at instant speed, no conditions. It's a niche combat trick that earns its slot in go-wide token builds and Voltron strategies, and nowhere else.
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, Shielded Passage is a one-mana way to save a commander or a critical attacker from a single combat exchange, which is a narrow but real use case in dedicated Voltron or heroic builds. In competitive formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, one-mana damage prevention loses almost entirely to cheaper or more permanent protection like Spellskite or Brave the Elements, which either redirect threats or protect the whole team. Pauper is the most hospitable non-Commander home — heroic shells can extract real value from the targeting trigger, and the low mana floor matters more at that power level. Across all formats, Shielded Passage is a role-player for specific archetypes, not a broadly maindeckable spell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Shielded Passage is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and a sleeve, not the effect. It holds no financial value and never will, but that's fine; you run it because it fits a slot, not because it's an asset.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.