Spirit of Resistance
Enchantment
As long as you control a permanent of each color, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $13.60
- EDHREC rank
- #15661
Spirit of Resistance makes you effectively immune to all damage as long as you're running five or more colors — which, in a five-color Commander deck, is a permanent lock that opponents must answer immediately or lose. Three mana to cast, one white to maintain, and the upside is total damage prevention: it's one of the most backbreaking enchantments available to five-color strategies.
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 |
Spirit of Resistance is a Commander card in every meaningful sense — the format's five-color commanders and 99-card singleton builds are precisely the environment where maintaining all five colors is trivial, making the damage prevention clause a genuine lock rather than a conditional bonus. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no play: two-color aggro and combo decks aren't running five colors, and control doesn't want a three-mana enchantment that does nothing offensively. Oathbreaker operates close enough to Commander's shell that five-color signatures can use it, though the 60-card constraint makes hitting all five colors less automatic. Anywhere outside those formats it's simply not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no direct budget replacement for Spirit of Resistance — the 'prevent all damage' clause on a permanent is uniquely powerful and priced accordingly. The closest substitute is Prism Ring or similar life-gain buffers, but those require you to cast spells of the matching color and replace damage with life rather than preventing it outright, which is a meaningful downgrade against infect, commander damage, and non-combat sources.
Price Context
Current price
$13.60 mid tier
At $13.60, Spirit of Resistance sits in the mid tier — noticeable but not prohibitive for a card that functions as a win-condition enabler in five-color Commander decks. Given its narrow format home and dedicated demand from five-color builds, the price is stable rather than speculative.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.