Perch Protection

Card text

Gift an extra turn (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they take an extra turn after this one.)

Create four 2/2 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. If the gift was promised, all permanents you control phase out, and until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything.

Exile Perch Protection.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.09 (as of 2026-11-11).

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Format legality

Legality of Perch Protection by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Perch Protection

Perch Protection has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Perch Protection, newest first.

• 2024-07-26 If your life total can't change, effects that replace an event with having you gain life (like Words of Worship's effect does) or having you lose life will apply and end up replacing the event with nothing.
• 2024-07-26 You can't pay a gift cost more than once.
• 2024-07-26 Each Aura and Equipment that phases out attached to a permanent that's phasing out phases in with that permanent and still attached to it.
• 2024-07-26 Some instant or sorcery spells require alternative or additional targets if the gift was promised. You ignore these targeting requirements if the gifts aren't promised for those spells. On the other hand, you can promise a gift for a permanent spell even if you won't be able to choose targets for an enters ability of that permanent once the spell resolves.
• 2024-07-26 If your life total can't change and an effect would set your life total to a specific number that's different from your current life total, that part of the effect won't do anything. Similarly, if an effect would cause you to exchange life totals with another player, the exchange won't happen, and neither player's life total will change.
• 2024-07-26 If you gain control of another player's permanent and it phases out, if the duration of the control-change effect expires before it phases in, that permanent phases in under that other player's control as your next untap step begins. If you leave the game before your next untap step, it phases in as the next untap step begins after your turn would have begun.
• 2024-07-26 For permanent spells with gift, an ability triggers when that permanent enters if the gift was promised. When that ability resolves, the gift is given to the appropriate opponent.
• 2024-07-26 Any creatures that phase in under your control as your next untap step begins will be able to attack and pay a cost of {T} during that turn.

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