Spirit Shield
Artifact
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
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: Target creature gets +0/+2 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #30516
Spirit Shield straps a repeatable toughness pump onto an artifact for three mana, letting you activate it for two colorless whenever you need a creature to survive combat or stick around through a damage-based board wipe. It's niche enough that most decks won't want it, but in dedicated toughness-matters shells it earns its slot.
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 Shield is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real consideration is Commander — specifically in toughness-matters builds where repeated +0/+1 pumps translate into damage, card draw, or mana. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana artifact that does nothing the turn it enters; the powered formats demand far more immediate impact. In Commander, Spirit Shield occupies a narrow but coherent role: it's a colorless option for decks that can't reliably access green or white pump effects and want a way to protect a key creature turn after turn.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Spirit Shield is firmly bulk — you're not buying it as a spec, you're grabbing a copy because the deck needs it. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; there's no realistic downside to picking one up, and no realistic upside either.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.