Apostle's Blessing
Apostle's Blessing: Instant, Modern Masters 2015. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W/P}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2015 (MM2)
- Released
- 2015-05-22
- Collector number
- 8
- Artist
- Brad Rigney
- Commander rank
- 7,502 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Apostle's Blessing
Apostle's Blessing is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white instant from Modern Masters 2015 (MM2), a Masters set released in May 2015. It is collector number 8 in that set, with art by Brad Rigney. It costs {1}{W/P} to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander and PreDH. It has been printed in 3 sets, from New Phyrexia (2011) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.41 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.41 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Apostle's Blessing by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Apostle's Blessing
Apostle's Blessing has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #MM2-8 | Common | 2019 |
| New Phyrexia (NPH) #2 | Common | 2011 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Apostle's Blessing, newest first.
- You choose the target as part of casting the spell. You choose what attribute the target gains protection from when the spell resolves.
- Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
- If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
- Any Equipment attached to a creature that gains protection from artifacts will become unattached.
- A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these card lists
These card lists include Apostle's Blessing.