First printed in Fallout (2024)
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Return target Aura or Equipment card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Put a shield counter on target creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
3/2
- Illustrated by
- Brian Valeza
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (7)
- Removing a shield counter when a permanent would be dealt damage or destroyed isn’t the same as regenerating a creature.
- “Shield” is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.
- Shield counters don’t prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
- If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
- If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura’s controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it comes back onto the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent’s permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains in its current zone.
- A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
- If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.49 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
235 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Kaya's Ghostform
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Fungal Fortitude
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Necrogen Communion
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Gift of Immortality
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Changing Loyalty
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Brotherhood Outcast + Minion's Return
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Brotherhood Outcast + Kaya's Ghostform + Viscera Seer
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Brotherhood Outcast + Fungal Fortitude + Viscera Seer
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Brotherhood Outcast + Gift of Immortality + Viscera Seer
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Brotherhood Outcast + Necrogen Communion + Viscera Seer