Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Delaying Shield

3W · Enchantment

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many delay counters on Delaying Shield instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all delay counters from Delaying Shield. For each delay counter removed this way, you lose 1 life unless you pay {1}{W}.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Nihilistic Glee 2BBEnchantment {2}{B}, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Hellbent — {1}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.
Luminesce WInstant Prevent all damage that black sources and red sources would deal this turn.
Owlin Shieldmage 3WBCreature — Bird Warlock Flying Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) 3/3
Breathstealer's Crypt 2UBEnchantment If a player would draw a card, instead they draw a card and reveal it. If it's a creature card, that player discards it unless they pay 3 life.
Invoke the Ancients 1GGGGSorcery Create two 4/5 green Spirit creature tokens. For each of them, put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.
Melira, Sylvok Outcast 1GLegendary Creature — Human Scout You can't get poison counters. Creatures you control can't have -1/-1 counters put on them. Creatures your opponents control lose infect. 2/2
Door of Destinies 4Artifact As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Pierce Strider 4Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct When Pierce Strider enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 3 life. 3/3
Heated Debate 2RInstant This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Heated Debate deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Bloodrite Invoker 2BCreature — Vampire Shaman {8}: Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. 3/1
Page 155