Elspeth Resplendent

Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

+1: Choose up to one target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter and a counter from among flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance on it.

−3: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield with a shield counter on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

−7: Create five 3/3 white Angel creature tokens with flying.

Loyalty 5

Set

Streets of New Capenna (SNC #282)

Rarity

Mythic

Mana value

5

Released

2022-04-29

Artist

Tom Roberts

EDHREC rank

#5,314

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

• 2022-04-29

  A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.

• 2022-04-29

  For Elspeth's first ability, its controller chooses flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance, then that counter and the +1/+1 counter are placed on the target creature at the same time.

• 2022-04-29

  If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.

• 2022-04-29

  If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.

• 2022-04-29

  Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.

• 2022-04-29

  Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.

• 2022-04-29

  “Shield” is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.