First printed in Odyssey (2001)

All 9 prints

Shelter

Name: Shelter: tournament usage statistics
Creator: Land Drop

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.

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Legality

Legal in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Future Standard, Alchemy, Old School 93/94, Standard Brawl

2019-06-14 You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.
2019-06-14 Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.
2019-06-14 A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.
2019-06-14 The legality of a spell’s targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, you’ll still draw a card.

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).