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Guardian Project
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Guardian Project

{3}{G}

Enchantment

LegalCard DrawRank #307

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.

Why is this card good?

Guardian Project is one of green's best repeatable card-advantage engines, and it's criminally underrated outside cEDH-adjacent circles. The key is who it draws for. Every creature you cast or reanimate that doesn't share a name with one of your existing creatures or one in your graveyard nets a card. In a typical 99-card Commander deck running mostly singleton creatures, that's essentially "draw a card every time a creature enters." It even rewards blink and flicker shenanigans only if the creature truly left, so it pairs less well with repeated bouncing of the same creature. Wants it: - Creature-heavy midrange/value decks (Selvala, Yarok, any green goodstuff list). - Token decks benefit less since tokens don't trigger it — but the nontoken backbone still does. - Reanimator and blink builds for steady gas. Skip it in spell-slinging, low-creature-count decks, or decks built around recurring the same legendary repeatedly (graveyard names will brick your draws). For most green creature decks, though, it's an auto-include.

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Printings (13)

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Played by these commanders

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Combos (8)

  • Tangleroot + Words of Wind + Guardian Project + Ornithopter

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count

  • Tangleroot + Words of Wind + Guardian Project + Crookshank Kobolds

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count

  • Tangleroot + Words of Wind + Guardian Project + Memnite

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count

  • Tangleroot + Words of Wind + Guardian Project + Kobolds of Kher Keep

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count

  • Leashling + Mycosynth Golem + Guardian Project

    → Infinite draw triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

  • Tangleroot + Words of Wind + Guardian Project + Crimson Kobolds

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count

Rulings (4)

  • 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 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.

  • 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

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

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