Boros Charm is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Complete guide
Boros Charm is a quintessential modular spell that defines the versatility of the Boros Legion. Whether you need to finish off an opponent, survive a board wipe, or push through massive damage, this two-mana instant provides the perfect tool for the job.
Three Modes of Versatility
Boros Charm offers three distinct choices. The first mode deals 4 damage directly to a player or planeswalker, acting as a powerful finishing move. The second mode grants all your permanents indestructible until end of turn, protecting your entire board. The third mode grants a single creature double strike, allowing it to deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.
Understanding Indestructible
When you choose the second mode, every permanent you currently control becomes indestructible. This means they cannot be destroyed by effects that say "destroy" or by lethal combat damage. However, per the official rulings, this only applies to permanents you control at the moment the spell resolves. Any permanents that enter the battlefield later in the turn will not be indestructible.
Timing and State-Based Actions
It is important to remember that indestructible does not prevent all forms of removal. While a planeswalker with indestructible won't be destroyed by damage, it still loses loyalty counters. If its loyalty hits zero, it is put into the graveyard as a state-based action, not destruction. Similarly, reducing a creature's toughness to zero or exiling it will still remove it from play.
When to Cast
Cast Boros Charm defensively in response to a board wipe like Supreme Verdict to save your team. Offensively, wait until your opponent has declared blockers to grant double strike to an unblocked creature for a surprise lethal blow, or cast it during your main phase to finish a low-health opponent.
Interaction examples
Path to ExileIf your opponent casts Path to Exile targeting your creature, casting Boros Charm to grant it indestructible will not save it. Because Path to Exile says 'exile' rather than 'destroy,' the creature is removed regardless of its indestructible status.
Swords to PlowsharesSimilar to other exile effects, if an opponent plays Swords to Plowshares on your creature, Boros Charm's second mode will resolve and make your creature indestructible, but the creature will still be exiled when Swords to Plowshares resolves because exile is not destruction.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Boros Charm
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Boros Charm's second mode affects only permanents you control at the time it resolves. It won't affect permanents that come under your control later in the turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Planeswalkers with indestructible will still have loyalty counters removed from them as they are dealt damage. If a planeswalker with indestructible has no loyalty counters, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard, as the rule that does this doesn't destroy the planeswalker.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Boros Reckoner + Boros Charm
- 1Give Boros Reckoner lifelink.
- 2Cast Boros Charm by paying
, giving permanents you control indestructible until end of turn. - 3Deal damage to Boros Reckoner.
- 4Boros Reckoner triggers, dealing that much damage to itself and causing you to gain that much life.
- 5Repeat step 4 any number of times.
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