Shelter Price
9 printings · 8 sets · first printed 2001
Shelter has been printed 9 times across 8 sets, first in 2001 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is The List #ODY-46 at $0.18, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #1587â at $16.14 — about 90× more. The median across 7 priced printings is $0.29. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 9x, including dedicated reprint sets like The List, Commander Masters.
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Every Shelter Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| The List #ODY-46 (C) Cheapest | 2024 | $0.18 | — |
| Commander Masters #56 (C) | 2023 | $0.20 | $0.04 |
| Odyssey #46 (C) | 2001 | $0.26 | $0.08 |
| Eternal Masters #29 (C) | 2016 | $0.29 | $0.10 foil |
| Modern Horizons #28 (C) | 2019 | $0.31 | $0.02 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1587 (R) | 2024 | $11.37 | $3.00 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1587â (R) Foil | 2024 | $16.14 | — |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #133 (C) | 2021 | — | — |
| Vintage Masters #44 (C) | 2014 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
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Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 9 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
4 PrecedentsYou canât choose âartifactâ or âcolorlessâ as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.
Protection from a color means that the target creature canât be blocked by creatures of that color, canât be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, canât be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.
A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesnât resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.
The legality of a spellâs targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, youâll still draw a card.