Card
Kros, Defense Contractor
Mana cost {1}{G}{W}{U}
Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor 2/4
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shield counter on target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, tap that creature and goad it. It gains trample until your next turn. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · NCC · #7
- Cheapest printing
- €0.38
- EDHREC salt
- 0.44
- Color identity
- Green, Blue, White
- Keywords
- Goad
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
“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. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
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 · Wizards of the Coast
Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
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 · Wizards of the Coast
If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast