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LegalRank #31
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Why is this card good?
Heroic Intervention is one of green's premier protection spells, and its #31 ranking is no accident. For two mana at instant speed, it shields your entire board from targeted removal, board wipes, and edicts (well, not edicts — but everything that targets or destroys). The instant-speed flexibility means you hold it up reactively and only spend it when an opponent commits to blowing you out.
It's a near-auto-include in any green deck that builds a board or relies on a key permanent. Token strategies, big-creature decks, voltron/Commander-centric builds, and Superfriends all love it as a one-card answer to Wrath of God, Toxic Deluge, or that spot-removal aimed at your general. It also enables blowout combat by saving your team mid-block.
Caveats: it does nothing against sacrifice effects, -X/-X (Toxic Deluge still kills via toughness if... actually no, indestructible saves that, but Damnation-style works), exile, and bounce. Skip it in low-creature spellslinger or control shells where you have little board to protect.
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Printings (26)
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Played by these commanders
Galea, Kindler of Hope100% of 1
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Sarah Jane Smith100% of 1
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The Fourth Doctor100% of 1
Combos (7)
- Twinning Staff + Heroic Intervention + Chain of Acid
→ Destroy all noncreature permanents opponents control, Infinite magecraft triggers, Mass Land Denial
- Cacophodon + Hammerfist Giant + Heroic Intervention
→ Infinite damage
- Red Hulk + Boros Reckoner + Heroic Intervention
→ Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite damage to one opponent
- Sonic the Hedgehog + Krark-Clan Shaman + Heroic Intervention
→ Infinite tapped Treasure tokens, Infinite damage to creatures
- Red Hulk + Screaming Nemesis + Heroic Intervention
→ Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite damage to one opponent
- Red Hulk + Spitemare + Heroic Intervention
→ Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite damage to one opponent
Rulings (3)
- 2023-07-28
A battle with indestructible still loses defense counters as it's dealt damage. If it's a Siege, it will still be exiled when the last defense counter is removed from it, and its controller may still cast it transformed without paying its mana cost.
- 2020-06-23
A planeswalker with indestructible still loses loyalty counters as it's dealt damage and will still be put into its owner's graveyard if its loyalty reaches 0.
- 2020-06-23
The set of permanents affected by Heroic Intervention is determined as the spell resolves. Permanents you begin to control later in the turn won't gain hexproof and indestructible.