Skyshroud Blessing
Instant
All lands gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
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- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #21742
Skyshroud Blessing gives all your lands shroud until end of turn for a single green mana — a one-sided protection spell that blanks mass land destruction and targeted Strip Mine effects before they resolve. Outside of Ashaya, Soul of the Wild decks where your creatures are also lands, the card is too narrow to run in most green builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns every nontoken creature you control into a Forest, so Skyshroud Blessing suddenly protects your entire board from targeted removal and wrath effects that hit creatures-as-lands — a one-mana instant that shields everything Ashaya has animated.
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 |
Skyshroud Blessing is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card. In Legacy and Vintage, land destruction is rare and single-target enough that a blanket shroud spell offers minimal value against the actual threats in those formats. In Commander, mass land destruction is the boogeyman it answers, but that threat is infrequent enough that Skyshroud Blessing sits on the fringe — most green decks would rather run Heroic Intervention or Teferi's Protection for broader coverage. The one home where it genuinely earns a slot is Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, where the lands-are-creatures overlap makes the effect dramatically wider than its mana cost suggests.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Skyshroud Blessing is deep bulk — pick it up for almost nothing if Ashaya, Soul of the Wild is your commander. At this price tier there's no financial reason to hesitate, though demand is narrow enough that it won't appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.