Circle of Protection: Red

Enchantment

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

FormOverFunction on Ghostly Flame and Thran Lens

2 years ago

The ice age... well... age, was a time of circles of protection (most often Circle of Protection: Red and Circle of Protection: Black). This GF would help the dirty dirty awful red/black direct damage player circumvent the relevant CoP. The lens is from a set I wasn’t involved in, but I think that was an artifact-heavy set that probably had benefits set aside for colorless things. The lens would have been useful to the people who still wanted to play regular non-artifact stuff in whatever they called standard back then.

TriusMalarky on Why Have There Been So …

3 years ago

The thing is it's repeatable. Arcanis the Omnipotent is a solid card in EDH(too high CMC for anything else) because it's repeatable Ancestral Recall.

Now, Recall's good on it's own -- but look at effects like Firebreathing(: this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn). The fact that you can do it over and over again makes it absolutely amazing.

Anything that can be repeated multiple times per turn at only a cost of mana is really good. I mean, imagine Circle of Protection: Red against Burn. You play it t2 and then t3 forward you can prevent damage from 3 sources each turn, eventually growing to the point where Burn just can't ever kill you. The problem is it's only good against red cards. You'd have to run Enlightened Tutor in a mono-white prison deck in a format without FoN or FoW to be able to make Circles halfway good, and even then you can just run Runed Halo and not have to be worried about extra mana or specific colors.

carpecanum on KAVID-19

4 years ago

On big thing is being able to block Karona as well as general pillowfort.
Stuffy Doll is perfect. Anything cheap with indestructable or things like Fog Bank or Guard Gomazoa

I also throw in Circle of Protection: Black and Circle of Protection: Red but lately been thinking about trading red for green because of my meta.

Mystic Barrier means only one opponent can attack you if multi-player. Spirit of Resistance means you don't care if they attack you or not. Vow of Flight is evasion and they can't attack you (thats the only Vow i use).

Might of the Nephilim and Blessing of the Nephilim, Civic Saber

Ward of Bones and Brand of Ill Omen stop opponents from casting creatures once Karona starts popping around

B.A.N.E. on Pillow Fort Bleed - Protecting …

4 years ago

BS-T - you know I had most of those cards on my list and cut them before my last refinement. I don't know why I didn't put Circle of Protection: Red or Story Circle in there!

ScionsStillLive - much appreciated

Deck list is here: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/burn-everyone-bwr-pillow-fort-bleed/

I've been play testing it for a week. In the description I have some notes and half the cards I've been considering.

griffstick - I was afraid I would kill Platinum Emperion if using Death Pits of Rath or that it would prevent me from using Necropotence

StopShot - Karma and Blanket of Night was my combo but I dropped it because I was trying to simplify the deck. I might put it back in. Actually I think I should.

BS-T on Pillow Fort Bleed - Protecting …

4 years ago

This is tricky - I like it!

There are a few decent prevention effects among these: Scryfall, the best for you probably being Light of Sanction .

Though you've likely tackled this angle fairly well... The best repeatable ones on the list are Story Circle , Circle of Protection: Red / Rune of Protection: Red - and the slightly spicier Shieldmage Advocate , Protective Sphere / Righteous Aura .

Urza's Armor is decent if you're using things like Pyrohemia and is useful to a degree vs Spellshock or Pyrostatic Pillar (also have you got Eidolon of the Great Revel ?) Similarly the ult of Ajani Steadfast seems good.

Idoneity on G/W/x enchantress modern MH2 update

4 years ago

If I may, I'd recommend Circle of Protection: Red for the sideboard. 'Tis horrendously effective against burn strategies in a way with both creatures and spells, as well as being cheaper than Story Circle .

The deck seems to be focused against creature-based decks, being fraught with specific cards against them. In note of this, Overwhelming Splendor may be a bit high on the mana curve.

Deafening Silence also seems to juxtapose the current build. With plenty of one-of silver bullet cards, perhaps Idyllic Tutor could hold that plan together? This would also allow for a very diverse sideboard plan. A couple of Commune with the Gods couldn't hurt, either.

A singular Plains could be of aid if you run into someone playing Blood Moon . Journey to Nowhere is quite effective removal that is also on-theme. On Thin Ice could help if you had snow basics, too.

Heroic Intervention in the sideboard could help against Fracturing Gust or spells of the sort.

Dosan the Falling Leaf could help against control decks. This enchantment build seems to have absolutely no instant speed interaction, so Stasis Snare could be great, or Cast Out for planeswalkers.

Courser of Kruphix could be solid life-gain and card filtering, as well as a blocker.

Seal of Primordium could be okay, but maybe not. Worship would be fun.

'Tis all, my friend. Happy enchanting.

eyes2sky on Cleric Pauper

5 years ago

drakendark Lookin good...I think you will like Harsh Sustenance , it will win you some games. As far as side board, decks like this are very prone to heavy burn... Electrickery is a staple in Pauper and could ruin you day. My side-board choices for decks like this usually involve lots of protection, for example: Circle of Protection: Red , Apostle's Blessing , Prismatic Strands and Hallow are a few examples that I use. PS Dawn Charm is a good choice also, very versatile card!

hungry000 on Budget Anti-Gobbo Proc

5 years ago

Okay, so I think you're missing the point a little. This deck is meant to be good against specifically Goblins, and no other matchup was taken into consideration when building it; everything you're saying is true and I agree with you on all of those points, but please remember that the request was to make the best possible deck against Goblins, which is why there are some unorthodox card selections here. That being the case, Circle of Protection: Red is in the deck because I'm assuming the matchup will always be Goblins, where it is always good. That assumption also applies to Burrenton Forge-Tender , Kami of False Hope , and the Soul Sisters.

Soul Sisters and Martyr Proc are, indeed, different decks. I suppose I should've mentioned this earlier, but this is a mashup of those two different archetypes. The reason I built it that way was to get the best cards available against Goblins; to get the best of both worlds, if you will.

To clarify in further detail, the deck is playing Soul Sisters alongside Martyr of Sands because Goblins plays lots of creatures that trigger them. Another reason is because tokens are good at blocking (though they are worse against Legion Loyalist ) as well as gaining life with the soul sisters. The deck isn't playing sweepers because it has a higher density of creatures than normal Martyr Proc (to support the Soul Sisters). I put that thing about sweepers in a note in the non-budget version of this deck (which, by the way, also includes the "infinite value loop" involving Mistveil Plains / Emeria, The Sky Ruin / Ranger of Eos ). This deck isn't playing GQ or Field of Ruin because it's trying to stay at the $70 budget.