First printed in New Capenna Commander (2022)
All 5 prints
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Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) #67, 2025
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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #251, 2025
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New Capenna Commander (NCC) #120, 2022
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New Capenna Commander (NCC) #19, 2022
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New Capenna Commander Promos (PNCC) #19p, 2022
Resourceful Defense 
Enchantment
Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent you control.
MTGO price: 0.89 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
In the last 30 days 0.1% of Commander decks played it (7 of 6150). Most played in Jace, Multiverse Architect.
Combos
220 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.
- Infinite turns, Lock: Magistrate's Scepter + Resourceful Defense (+ 1 other requirement)
- Win the game: Darksteel Reactor + Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought + Resourceful Defense
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Resourceful Defense (+ 2 other requirements)
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Resourceful Defense (+ 2 other requirements)
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Resourceful Defense + Viscera Seer (+ 2 other requirements)
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB…: Carrion Feeder + Resourceful Defense (+ 2 other requirements)
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Resourceful Defense + Yahenni, Undying Partisan (+ 2 other requirements)
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature ETB…: Phyrexian Altar + Resourceful Defense (+ 2 other requirements)
- Win the game: Darksteel Reactor + Eternity Vessel + Resourceful Defense
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Branching Evolution + Crystalline Crawler + Resourceful Defense
Legality
Constructed
- Standard Not legal
- Pioneer Not legal
- Modern Not legal
- Legacy Legal
- Vintage Legal
- Pauper Not legal
- Future Standard Not legal
- Historic Not legal
- Timeless Not legal
- Alchemy Not legal
- Penny Dreadful Not legal
- Premodern Not legal
- Old School 93/94 Not legal
Singleton
- Gladiator Not legal
Commander formats
- Commander Legal
- Duel Commander Legal
- Pauper Commander Not legal
- PreDH Not legal
- Tiny Leaders Legal
- Oathbreaker Legal
- Brawl Not legal
- Standard Brawl Not legal
- Competitive Brawl Not legal
