Giver of Runes

Creature — Kor Cleric

{T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from colourless or from the colour of your choice until end of turn. ((Remember the acronym debt.) It can't be damaged, enchanted, equipped, blocked or targeted by anything of the chosen colour. Anything of the chosen colour attached to the target creature immediately falls off.)

Legality

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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (40)

Crow_Umbra on Watch the Party Die [Primer]

3 months ago

Profet93

• I gave the edge to Giver of Runes for having an additional toughness, and can also protect from colorless, which is a bit niche.

• I addressed this in the Draw & Tutor part of my primer:

"Imperial Recruiter - An excellent option for this deck, especially given the potential for repeat uses. Recruiter of the Guard could be another supplemental option to Imperial Recruiter. She would be able to tutor up 18/34 creatures, with some overlap with the 22/34 that Imperial Recruiter can tutor."

I gave the edge to Imperial Recruiter since it can grab options like Professional Face-Breaker, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Preston, the Vanisher, and Burakos, Party Leader.

• Hall of Heliod's Generosity is more so a contingency in case I recur any of my enchantments. It's niche, but I like it.

• I run Vault of the Archangel in my Mardu/Orzhov aggro decks, espcially if they have the Treasure support in the mid-game to threaten or actually use the activation. It's worked for me before.

Cloudy2024 on Clerical Air

4 months ago

so cool! I think that Giver of Runes might be a good addition to the main list. also Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose instead of Marauding Blight-Priest. overall I think it's working up to something great! definitely upvote worthy!

Craeter on Galadriel, Blinker of Valinor

8 months ago

Lovely deck mate, Teleportation Circle would be good in here! Maybe more protection too: Giver of Runes and Flawless Maneuver. Jeweled Lotus got banned from Commander recently, so could easily cut that.

DeinoStinkus on Equip

11 months ago

You need Hammer of Nazahn, Grafted Exoskeleton, Shadowspear and Open the Armory. Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and Mox Opal if possible.

Cuts:

Adaptive Automaton (clunky, what are you choosing??)

Benalish Marshal (too mana intensive for so little impact)

Bladegraft Aspirant (same)

Burnished Hart (too slow)

Chief of the Foundry (too much mana for so little impact)

Eivor, Battle-Ready (way too expensive)

Kassandra, Eagle Bearer (not really cost efficient since you don't have the spear)

Militia Bugler (not good)

Mother of Runes -> Giver of Runes

Novice Knight (not good)

Thraben Inspector (not really refined for your game plan)

Darksteel Plate -> Mithril Coat

Explorer's Scope (not good)

Haunted Plate Mail (not good)

Ring of Thune (not good)

Sword of Hours (not good)

Sword of the Paruns (not very good)

Hieromancer's Cage -> Borrowed Time

Pacifism (not good)

Stasis Snare -> Grasp of Fate

Council's Judgment (this card sucks)

Visions of Ruin -> Vandalblast

gzusvictory on Halvar, Divine Voltron

11 months ago

Spyrechild

I do like the Excalibur a lot! It alone can be lethal with our commander. The challenge comes down to finding a way to cheat it into play. Cheating casting costs of our equipments seems more difficult than cheating equip costs. It helps a lot that our equipments are artifacts, which fits the historic category.

Haystack is nice. Reminds me of Mother of Runes, but cannot protect itself or provide evasion. Keep in mind that it cannot target our creatures that have protection from white since it’s considered a white artifact, and with it not being a creature, it cannot be equipped. There is the advantage of having the ability to use it the same turn it comes out. I can see a common play pattern of playing Haystack prior to playing the threat, and leaving up the additional two mana of course. I know we were also trying to keep our artifact count down and I am curious what we would take out for it. I do like that it can make one of our creatures dodge practically any board wipe. Phasing has some advantages over hexproof, indestructible, and color protection. Timing can be a bit of a challenge not having our threat return to defend us until our next untap rather than the end of the turn we use the Haystack. Not a fan of having to keep up mana up when there’s things like Giver of Runes, which can activate for free (and also did not currently make the deck). I would probably recommend adding Haystack if your playgroup is removal heavy, otherwise it’s a bit too defensive to speed up our game plan of taking out our opponents. I am personally more of a fan of spells/abilities that I can use that can protect our commander without interrupting a lethal attack, like a new card I pulled yesterday Flare of Fortitude

plakjekaas on New Swords

1 year ago

Niko9 If you use Giver of Runes to give an equipped creature Protection from Colorless, all colorless auras and equipment would fall off. Protection prohibits being Damaged, Equipped/Enchanted, Blocked and Targeted by what you are protected from.

So if equipped creature had protection from artifacts, and it's equipped with an artifact, then the artifact would fall off. That's why legendofa mentioned auras like Benevolent Blessing that have a clause to protect the protection from itself.

I suppose "Protection from other Artifacts" could work.

Caran_Lyg on Angel lifegain feast festival

1 year ago

Another suggestion is for your sideboard. Angel of Jubilation for any decks that want to use life as a cost like Phyrexian Mana, Archangel of Tithes + Authority of the Consuls for aggressive decks, Chancellor of the Annex offers a free counter spell unless they pay 1 additional mana, Giver of Runes protection for a single creature against colorless or whatever color you choose, Disenchant for artifacts and enchantments and finally, Rest in Peace for decks that want to mess with their graveyard such as reanimator decks.

wallisface on Having some disillusionment with the …

1 year ago

This post below is all quite long-winded, but you wrote a lot yourself and i'm trying to give it justice :)

Some thoughts/counterpoints on each of your points mentioned:

• On "I don't tend to care for games that involve screwing over your opponents" - Your examples here seem to be almost entirely fair interaction (counterspells, killspells etc). While you might not like people messing with your boardstate, its an integral part of the game in order to prevent it just being a race to see who can combo-off first. Without interaction there's no point to playing the game with another person (you might as well be goldfishing the deck on your own). You mention in this paragraph that you prefer cooperative games, and if that's the case then I really don't think magic is ever going to play into your preferred play patterns.

• On "As for deckbuilding, I can't decide if I love it or hate it" - this paragraph I think just reads as a frustration with relative lack of experience. Unfortunately the only way to not feel uncomfortable in this aspect of the game is to get more games in. When you're newish to the game, deckbuilding is almost always bound to feel overwhelming, and whatever you brew is almost always going to feel clumsy to play. The best way to get around this is to play with established decks for a while (at whatever level of competitiveness your group plays at). Playing with decks that are proven to work will help you learn what spells are strong and why, and what boardstates are required for various effects to feel stronger/weaker.

• I'm not going to comment on the lore. Everyone has their own opinions on what's good and what isn't... at the end of the day, if you find the lore too off-putting you don't have to read any of it - it's not a mandatory thing you need to do to play the game and can be entirely ignored.

• Community is also a tricky one to answer, as it's almost entirely down to your playgroup. Find people with mindsets you enjoy being around, and play games with them... a game in a bad-format but with good company will always be more enjoyable than playing your favourite format surrounded by people you can't stand.

• On the financial side, I don't think many people are pleased with the costs required to buy a competitive deck. However I can say that it appears that most of the community (at least on here) are all-for proxies - as seen in this thread here. If your playgroup isn't keen for proxies, then it is pretty important that your group decides on an upper-limit on how much a deck should cost, to avoid pricing eachother out of the game.

The vibe I got from skimming through your post is that you're a very casual player, and with that comes the baggage of getting frustrated at the aspects of the game that don't yet make sense. I would think the healthiest thing to do in your current position would be to pick-and-choose the parts of the game you enjoy the most, and stick with them, while blocking-out the aspects of the game which drain you. In particular:

• if you decisively hate interaction, you can play decks which do their best to avoid it, most notably with a deck like Bogles, or using decks running stuff like Giver of Runes, Spellskite, Counterspell, Veil of Summer etc to protect your stuff.

• if you get overwhelmed with deckbuilding, a better approach is to use already-created decks that work within whatever meta you're playing (all formats have budget options so price should be no issue here). Then, if you're still wanting to indulge in creativity, its a lot easier to make small changes to an established list and see those play-out in playtesting, rather than trying to create something entirely from scratch.

• further to deckbuilding, reading articles and watching videos of competitive players brew and create decks will help strengthen your knowledge around doing that yourself. Even if they're building decks in entirely different formats with entirely different budgets, their general building process should help you see mistakes in your own approach.

• Lore can be entirely ignored. Or just skip the stories that don't interest you.

• Community requires work, but with enough gumption you can get like-minded people into the game. Avoid draining yourself on Arena etc when missing those social interactions are making you enjoy things less. Stick to playing games with those you enjoy spending time with - Magic is a social game.

• Proxy stuff. Casual games shouldn't be gatekept. If people don't like playing with well-made proxies, you don't have to play with those people.