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Guardian Project

Enchantment MV 4

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What it does

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Combos with Guardian Project

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Leashling Mycosynth Golem Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Tangleroot Words of Wind Shield Sphere Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Return all permanents opponents control to their owner's hand
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Sibsig Ceremony Phyrexian Altar Stinkweed Imp Infinite
    • Infinite self-mill
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite colored mana
    • Near-infinite creature tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Lyla, Holographic Assistant Phyrexian Altar Forsaken Miner Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature an opponent controls
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-01-25

    A face-down creature has no name, so it can't share a name with anything. This includes other creatures with no name.

  • 2019-01-25

    Whether the entering creature shares a name with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard is checked both as that creature enters and as Guardian Project's ability resolves. If the entering creature isn't the first of its name as it enters, the ability doesn't trigger at all; if its name is shared as the ability resolves, you don't draw a card.

  • 2019-01-25

    If the entering creature leaves the battlefield and returns while Guardian Project's ability is on the stack, that same card will be a new creature you control that shares a name with the creature that was on the battlefield, so you won't draw a card. However, Guardian Project's ability may trigger for the new creature and you may draw a card as that ability resolves.

  • 2019-01-25

    If the entering creature is put into your graveyard while Guardian Project's ability is on the stack, that same card will be a creature card in your graveyard that shares a name with the creature that was on the battlefield, so you won't draw a card.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Guardian Project, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 2
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Samwise Gamgee 1 2 —
Atarka, World Render 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Gruul 1 deck
  • Selesnya 1 deck

Every version of Guardian Project

13 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Guardian Project — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.