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Shelter, art by Christopher Moeller
Art by Christopher Moeller · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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Shelter

{1}{W} · Instant

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

Rulings (4)

Jun 14, 2019 · You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.

Jun 14, 2019 · 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.

Jun 14, 2019 · 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.

Jun 14, 2019 · 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.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernLegal
PioneerNot legal
StandardNot legal
PauperLegal
PremodernLegal
cEDHLegal

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