Guardian Project
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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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
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. 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
- Tangleroot Words of Wind Shield Sphere Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Return all permanents opponents control to their owner's hand
- Mass Land Denial
- 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
- 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
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.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samwise Gamgee | 1 | 3 | — |
| Aloy, Savior of Meridian | 1 | 0 | — |
| Atarka, World Render | 1 | 0 | — |
| Forest | 1 | 0 | — |
| Shalai, Voice of Plenty | 1 | 0 | — |
| Surrak and Goreclaw | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Notary Hobbits | 1 | 0 | — |
| the wise mothman | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Green 3 decks
- Selesnya 2 decks
- Gruul 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
Guardian Project price history
The Ravnica Remastered #146 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $15.63 | $15.59 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $15.63 | $15.59 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $15.63 | $15.39 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $15.57 | $15.39 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $15.61 | $15.39 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $15.48 | $15.39 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $15.48 | $15.47 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $15.48 | $15.44 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $15.41 | $15.44 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $15.37 | $15.44 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $15.38 | $15.44 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $15.38 | $15.30 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $15.39 | $15.30 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $15.20 | $15.30 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $15.17 | $14.24 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $15.18 | $14.18 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $19.77
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $12.23
- Foil
- $14.62
Extended Art
- Normal
- $13.53
- Foil
- $14.95
- Foil
- $14.04
Extended Art
- Foil
- $16.19
- Normal
- $15.63
- Foil
- $15.59
- Normal
- $14.82
- Foil
- $18.58
- Foil
- $349.99
Inverted
- Normal
- $26.13
- Foil
- $43.98
- Normal
- $14.20
- Normal
- $13.06
- Foil
- $14.17
Promo
Ravnica Allegiance Promos
- Normal
- $14.86
- Foil
- $14.79
Promo
Ravnica Allegiance Promos
- Foil
- $13.75
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. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
