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That Which Was Taken

Legendary Artifact

{4}, {T}: Put a divinity counter on target permanent other than That Which Was Taken.
Each permanent with a divinity counter on it has indestructible.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Price
$2.45
EDHREC rank
#14639
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That Which Was Taken card art
That Which Was Taken makes any permanent indestructible for four mana — repeatable, colorless, and usable on opponents' stuff in a pinch — and the cost is steep enough that you need a real reason to run it. Decks that protect a key permanent on a budget or shut down destruction-based removal (like Worms of the Earth) are the right home; casual packages like Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor that lean on a single creature surviving combat rounds out the use case.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Owen Grady, Raptor TrainerBlue, Loyal Raptor

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor

17.1% of decks · synergy 0.17

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor builds around keeping one creature alive through combat and removal — That Which Was Taken answers both threats at once by making your key Raptor indestructible, letting the engine run uninterrupted.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

That Which Was Taken is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only meaningfully shows up in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana plus four to activate is far too slow for formats that end games on turns one through three. Modern is theoretically legal but the same problem applies — the format's clock is brutal and there are better ways to protect permanents. Commander is where That Which Was Taken earns its slot: the slower pace makes the activation cost manageable, the political angle of ticking indestructibility onto any permanent creates table dynamics, and there are enough combos that reward indestructible pieces to make the investment real.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.45 cheap tier

At $2.45, That Which Was Taken sits in the cheap tier — low enough that the barrier to acquiring it is almost purely about deckbuilding conviction, not budget. It's a niche piece with a stable ceiling, so don't expect the price to move dramatically in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.