Shelter
Shelter: Instant, Commander Masters. Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Commander Masters (CMM)
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Collector number
- 56
- Artist
- Alayna Danner
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About Shelter
Shelter is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white instant from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 56 in that set, with art by Alayna Danner. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Odyssey (2001) to Commander Masters (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.23 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.
From the storm of hellfire, the angel emerged, smiling.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.23 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Shelter by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Shelter
Shelter has been printed in 8 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #ODY-46 | Common | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1587 | Rare | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1587★ | Rare | 2024 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #133 | Common | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons (MH1) #28 | Common | 2019 |
| Eternal Masters (EMA) #29 | Common | 2016 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) #44 | Common | 2014 |
| Odyssey (ODY) #46 | Common | 2001 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Shelter, newest first.
- You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.