Spiritual Asylum
Enchantment
Creatures and lands you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
When a creature you control attacks, sacrifice this enchantment.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #23488
Spiritual Asylum hands your creatures and lands hexproof for three mana at sorcery speed — a blanket effect that shuts down targeted removal, land destruction, and aura hate in one card. The catch is that it also prevents you from targeting your own permanents, which matters if your gameplan leans on your own Auras or activated abilities that target.
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 |
Commander is where Spiritual Asylum earns its keep — targeted removal is at its most prevalent, land destruction sees play, and the board state you protect is worth protecting after multiple turns of investment. The self-targeting restriction is a real cost in Aura-heavy builds or decks that run equipment tutors that target, so evaluate your own gameplan before slotting it in. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally invisible: the effect isn't fast enough to matter in formats defined by interaction on the stack rather than on the board. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case at a smaller scale, and the lower life totals make a resolved Spiritual Asylum a genuine stabilizer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Spiritual Asylum is firmly bulk — low buy-in for an effect that would cost several dollars if it appeared on a more recent card. That price is stable; there's no reprint pressure and no tournament demand pushing it in either direction, so what you see now is roughly what it will cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.