Resourceful Defense
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
4: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent you control.
Combos with Resourceful Defense
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.
- Delaying Shield Infinite
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you
- Lock
- Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Urabrask // The Great Work Infinite
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite damage
- Magistrate's Scepter Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Basking Broodscale Arwen, Weaver of Hope Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- The Thing Sage of Hours Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Resourceful Defense, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight | 1 | 1 | — |
| Kilo, Apogee Mind | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kros, Defense Contractor | 1 | 0 | — |
| Yuna, Hope of Spira | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Selesnya 1 deck
- Bant 1 deck
- Jeskai 1 deck
Every version of Resourceful Defense
5 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.

Edge of Eternities Commander
- Normal
- $0.33

- Normal
- $0.37
- Foil
- —

Extended Art
- Normal
- $5.05

- Normal
- $2.65

Promo
New Capenna Commander Promos
- Foil
- $25.49
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Resourceful Defense — 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.