Shield of the Avatar

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Shield of the Avatar

Artifact — Equipment

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Equip (a: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Caerwyn on None

3 years ago

Just doing a quick look at the MTG Wiki:

The mechanic Overload arose out of a mechanic designed by Ken Nagle in the first round of the Great Designer Search 1.

Ethan Fleischer's Evolve Mechanic from the Great Designer Search 2 found its way into the game.

Shawn Main created a mechanic in the Great Designer Search 2 that would be renamed and placed in the game as Battalion )

Looting becoming part of Red's Color Identity has its birth in the Great Designer Search 2.

You Make the Creature contest resulted in the creation of Spiritmonger .

You Make the Card contests resulted in the creation of: Forgotten Ancient , Crucible of Worlds , Vanish into Memory , and Waste Not .

The Winners of the Magic Invitational were allowed to design a card that would feature their likeness. From that, we got:

  1. Olle Råde's Sylvan Safekeeper ;
  2. Darwin Kastle's Avalanche Riders ;
  3. Mike Long's Rootwater Thief ;
  4. Chris Pikula's Meddling Mage ;
  5. Jon Finkel's Shadowmage Infiltrator ;
  6. Kai Budde's Voidmage Prodigy ;
  7. Jens Thoren's Solemn Simulacrum ;
  8. Bob Maher's Dark Confidant ;
  9. Terry Soh's Rakdos Augermage ;
  10. Antoine Ruel's Ranger of Eos ; and
  11. Tiago Chan's Snapcaster Mage .

The 2005 Magic Invitational had a vote for a fan-submitted card. Tsuyoshi Fujita's winning entry would eventually become Gemstone Caverns .

Magic 2015 had a number of cards created by famous Magic fans. These cards are:

  1. George Fan's (Plants vs. Zombies) Genesis Hydra ;
  2. Penny Arcade's (of the Penny Arcade webcomic and creator of PAX) Avarice Amulet ;
  3. Markus Persson's (creator of Minecraft) Aggressive Mining ;
  4. Richard Garriot's (creator of Ultimata) Shield of the Avatar ;
  5. David Sirlin's (designer on Street Fighter II) Master of Predicaments ;
  6. Rob Pardo's (lead designer for WoW) Xathrid Slyblade ;
  7. Isaiah Cartwright's (lead designer for Guild Wars 2) Warden of the Beyond ;
  8. Justin Gary's (winner 2003's National Team Championship in Worlds) Spirit Bonds ;
  9. Stone Librande's (lead designer Diablo III) Goblin Kaboomist ;
  10. Brian Fargo's (Founder of Interplay Entertainment, which made the original Fallout games) Yisan, the Wanderer Bard ;
  11. Mike Neumann's (creative director for Borderlands) Chasm Skulker ;
  12. James Ernest's (creator of Cheapass Games) Hot Soup ;
  13. Edmund McMillen's (indie game designer) Cruel Sadist ; and
  14. Brad Muir's (game designer of Double Fine, which made Psychonauts) Ob Nixilis, Unshackled .

I think that should answer your question. There also have been a number of players who were hired directly as a result of their play in tournaments or performances in things like the Great Designer Search, so, in a sense, could be considered fans turned card creators. However, once they become part of the design team, they are no longer merely fan creators, so I am not sure they would be responsive to your question.

Gbeail on Attack Of The Cat Girls >45$<

3 years ago

I own a copy of Shield of the Avatar, I can't believe I forgot it existed. I'll make that replacement. Also I'll see what I want to replace for Avarice Amulet, it's finals week so I'll finish fixing the deck after this week.

SlushyJones on Attack Of The Cat Girls >45$<

3 years ago

I have a Cat deck based around Kemba as well. I recommend swapping Shield of the Realm for Shield of the Avatar. It's a little different in terms of mana cost, but the equip/mana cost is about equal all added up. It will quickly become more effective than Shield of the Realm with even 1 turn of token making.

I also like Spidersilk Net for reach. But it looks like you have flying equipment, so it might be redundant.

High_Priest_of_Avacyn on Odric's Army of the Round Table

4 years ago

I like what you're going for here. I love token gen decks, they really feel like you're amassing an army against your opponent. Some cards I'd consider adding:

Phantom General , Divine Visitation , Finale of Glory , Hour of Reckoning , Shield of the Avatar , Teferi's Protection , God-Eternal Oketra , Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , and Helm of the Host . Also more cards with the populate mechanic.

Another neat trick for mana ramp in mono colored decks is to use Extraplanar Lens in combination with snow lands to double your mana production, since it's unlikely that your opponents will be using snow lands as well.

High_Priest_of_Avacyn

Madcookie on How Do Pariah's Shield and …

4 years ago

Everything works as you expect it to work. Lets say you have 2 creatures on board and one of them is equipped with 1x Pariah's Shield and 2x Shield of the Avatar . Your opponent cast Lightning Bolt targeting you. The bolt resolves and Pariah's Shield replacement effect takes place attempting to damage your equipped creature instead. You control the creature equipped with Shield of the Avatar , therefore you choose the order of which the 2 prevention effects occur. The first shield prevents 2 of the 3 damage from Lightning Bolt (since you control two creatures), then the second prevents the last point of damage , therefore absorbing the damage fully.

DemonDragonJ on How Do Pariah's Shield and …

4 years ago

If a creature is equipped with both Pariah's Shield and Shield of the Avatar , will the latter shield prevent damage that is redirected to the creature by the former shield?

Also, as a bonus question, will the abilities of multiple shields of the avatar stack with each other?

elgosu1337 on Advertise your COMMANDER deck!

5 years ago

Writing a comment for you CalebMaSmith.


Grothama, All Devouring Shield Tribal

Commander / EDH* elgosu1337

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Here's a deck featuring the new legendary Wurm Grothama, All-Devouring. It uses lots of protection like Magebane Armor and Shield of the Avatar to prevent opponents from drawing cards from Grothama, while we can move the equipment on our turn to draw from it. Also lots of other ways to gain value from the fighting.

Mccriggles on Deck of infinite life

6 years ago

why do you have so many 4 drops? other than lands, you only have a 20% percent chance of drawing Authority of the Consuls and a 10% chance of drawing Shield of the Avatar in your opening hand, so it'll be a couple turns before you get something on the field. google mana curves and stuff like that and maybe add some 1 or 2 drop control cards. I had a similar deck that worked really well but that was 3 years ago. Other than that I like the deck and I'll recommend Ajani's Pridemate, Soul Warden and maybe Serra Ascendant. +1

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