Sworn Defender
Alliances (ALL) #19 · Rare · Creature — Human Knight
Mana cost: {2}{W}{W}
{1}: This creature's power becomes the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by this creature minus 1 until end of turn, and its toughness becomes 1 plus the power of that creature until end of turn.
Power/toughness 1/3 · Illustrated by D. Alexander Gregory · Released June 10, 1996 · On the Reserved List
Prices
- Nonfoil: $1.01 USD · €0.67 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.11 USD (12.2%) to $1.01 USD; low $0.90 USD, high $1.01 USD.
Printings
- Alliances #19 (this printing) · Rare · 1996 · $1.01 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — You apply power/toughness changing effects in a series of sublayers in the following order: (a) effects from characteristic-defining abilities; (b) effects that set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (c) effects that modify power and/or toughness but don’t set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (d) changes from counters; (e) effects that switch a creature’s power and toughness. This card’s effect is always applied in (b), which means that effects applied in sublayer (c), (d), or (e) will not be overwritten; they will be applied to the new value.