Shield Sphere

Artifact Creature — Wall

Defender

Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oathbreaker	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 (50)

CD-ROM on Mono-Black 0 Mana Cost

5 months ago

SufferFromEDHD I appreciate it, man. Scale of Chiss-Goria is useful to protect Barricade Breaker from cards like Dismember. Lotus Petal and Mox Opal can't help cast my creatures with Improvise through their abilities. If I wanted to add both of them, I should probably swap Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Scale of Chiss-Goria and/or Shield Sphere for Bone Saw, Paradise Mantle, Signal Pest and/or Springleaf Drum.

king-saproling on Kronk the forgemaster

8 months ago

Thoughts on these? Krark-Clan Ironworks, Cloudstone Curio, Priest of Urabrask, Mana Echoes, Thermopod, Goblin Engineer, Moonsilver Key, Haze of Rage, Sram, Senior Edificer, Stormrider Rig, Ronin Warclub, Ornithopter, Shield Sphere, Phyrexian Walker, Reckless Fireweaver, Ingenious Artillerist, Altar of Dementia, Lotus Petal, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Recruiter of the Guard

multimedia on Defending budget commander deck

10 months ago

Hey, good changes so far. Looking nice with a really low avg. CMC.

Some budget defender upgrades to consider.

• Orator of Ojutai --> Hover Barrier
• Sunscape Familiar --> Gatecreeper Vine
• Wall of Roots --> Cathedral Membrane
• Shield-Wall Sentinel --> Geist of the Archives
• Wall of Stolen Identity --> Marble Titan
• Wall of Junk --> Fog Bank
• Walking Bulwark --> Consider
• Crashing Drawbridge --> Suspicious Bookcase

Orator of Ojutai is another two drop defender who can draw ETB if you control Arcades and it has flying. Sunscape Familiar and Wall of Roots are more defenders who ramp. Shield-Wall Sentinel is a defender tutor. Wall of Stolen Identity is good in multiplayer Commander and it ETB as the creature you choose with defender. Identity and Shield-Wall are some higher mana cost defenders, but their ETB abilities are worth it.

Wall of Junk has been errata to have defender, it can return itself to your hand if it blocks making it bonus good with vigilance. Walking Bulwark and Crashing Drawbridge are low mana cost defenders who can give other creatures you control haste.

• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive --> Aegis of the Heavens

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive makes your defenders unblockable. What makes Tower Defense good here is it gives all creatures you control the instant pump for two mana. Aegis of the Heavens only targets one creature for three mana.

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Because Arcades triggers to draw when a defender ETB then blink can be a powerful effect. Blink can also enable an infinite turns combo where attacking Arcades and/or defenders are the wincon.

• Eerie Interlude --> Voidslime
• Soulherder --> Serra's Blessing

Eerie Interlude can protect all your creatures from a board wipe since your creatures return to the battlefield at the next end step. If Arcades is exiled along with defenders then when the creatures come back you draw. To price match for a possible cut, Eerie could replace Voidslime? Cutting Voidslime will also clear some budget to add some of the more price defenders I suggested above.

At your end step Soulherder can be repeatable blink of any creature you control. With Arcades blinking a defender is draw, if the blinked defender has an ETB ability it triggers again and gives the defender pseudo vigilance since it will ETB untapped. Blink can also reset Shield Sphere and Wall of Roots.

If your game plan is to attack with defenders thanks to Arcades then how about extra attacks from extra turns? Adding this combo and Eerie Interlude are some reasons to keep Mnemonic Wall.

• Mnemonic Wall + Walk the Aeons + Soulherder

Cast Aeons and at your end step Soulherder blinks Mnemonic returning Aeons to your hand. On your extra turn cast Aeons and repeat. If you control Arcades then you also draw at your end step, but you only get extra turns equal to the number of cards in your library.

Max_Hammer on U Artifact Affinity

11 months ago

This is indeed a very funny affinity deck. I can help here, friend. (:

• Mystic Forge is going to give you pretty much as much freedom with playing stuff as you want. Unless you hit a land, that is. Taking out Gingerbrute and Aether Spellbomb for two of these is probably all you'll need.

• Shield Sphere is a blocker for free. I'd replace either Memnite or Ornithopter with four of these.

• Power Depot is too good to pass up. Swap out Spire of Industry, Razortide Bridge, and one Mistvault Bridge.

• Treasure Vault is very snazzy and should probably replace the rest of the Mistvault Bridges.

• Chromescale Drake gets you some extra artifacts. I'd swap him out for Sojourner's Companion.

• Tormod's Crypt should replace Nihil Spellbomb, Pithing Needle, and Relic of Progenitus.

• Qumulox, Broodstar, Somber Hoverguard, and Myr Enforcer are all just more affinity creatures.

• Mycosynth Golem is going to make everything absurdly cheap.

I also think that you should replace Welding Jar, Shadowspear, and Gingerbrute either wil three copies of Welding Jar or three copies of Shadowspear, putting three copies of the other into your sideboard.

lagotripha on Alarm Ping - Premodern

1 year ago

Cloud works great, but some of the other 0 drops are really good - Shield Sphere in particular is an incredible wall, which really helps against creature aggro. Its also a little easier to chain a turn with intruder/enchant/0 drop (4 lands) than cloud.

Gidgetimer on Blocking Multiple Creatures

1 year ago

The ability triggers once and one counter is placed. Shield Sphere's oracle text is "Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it."

509.5a An ability that reads “Whenever [a creature] blocks, . . .” generally triggers only once each combat for that creature, even if it blocks multiple creatures. It triggers if the creature is declared as a blocker. It will also trigger if that creature becomes a blocker as the result of an effect, but only if it wasn’t a blocking creature at that time. (See rule 509.1g.) It won’t trigger if the creature is put onto the battlefield blocking.

509.5b An ability that reads “Whenever [a creature] blocks a creature, . . .” triggers once for each attacking creature the creature with the ability blocks. It triggers if the creature is declared as a blocker. It will also trigger if an effect causes that creature to block an attacking creature, but only if it wasn’t already blocking that attacking creature at that time. It won’t trigger if the creature is put onto the battlefield blocking.

Droolz on Blocking Multiple Creatures

1 year ago

I was working on a janky wall-deck and stumbled upon this.."issue"

Shield Sphere says it gets the counter "whenever" it blocks or "if shield sphere is assigned as blocker"

Now when I also have High Ground in play it let's me block 2 creatures with Shield sphere.

Does the shield sphere get 2 counters or just 1?

In other words: Does a "block" happen simultanously with an other block when one creatue is blocking multiple creatures?

Thanks

king-saproling on Zero Cost Jank

2 years ago

There's also Shield Sphere.

You could get an infinite storm count with things like Battered Golem/Cinder Pyromancer plus Banishing Knack/Retraction Helix and a 0 cost permanent.