Witness Protection
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)
Combos with Witness Protection
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.
- Medomai the Ageless Capsize Infinite
- Lock
- Infinite turns
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
If the enchanted creature had any subtypes other than creature types, such as Equipment, Vehicle, or Shrine, it loses those as well.
- 2024-11-08
If an effect instructs a player to choose a card name, that player may not name "Legitimate Businessperson," even if a creature currently has that name. (Don't worry, that doesn't make the business any less legitimate.)
- 2024-11-08
Effects that modify the creature's power and/or toughness, such as the effect of Giant Growth, will apply to the creature no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change its power and/or toughness and effects that switch its power and toughness.
- 2024-11-08
Witness Protection overwrites all previous effects that set the creature's base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply afterward will overwrite this effect.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Witness Protection, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier | 1 | 1 | — |
| Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief | 1 | 1 | — |
| Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Master of Keys | 1 | 0 | — |
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Red) 1 deck
Witness Protection price history
The Foundations #168 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 6, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.35 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.37 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.36 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.35 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.35 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.35 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.34 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Witness Protection
3 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.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.35
The List
- Normal
- $0.13
- Normal
- $0.19
- Foil
- $0.32
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Witness Protection. 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.
