Eldritch Immunity 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
Target creature you control gains protection from each color until end of turn. Overload(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Complete guide
Eldritch Immunity is a powerful defensive tool for colorless decks, offering a modern twist on classic protection spells. As a Kindred Instant, it carries the Eldrazi subtype, making it synergistic with anything that cares about that iconic creature type. Whether you are saving a single threat or your entire board, this spell ensures your Eldrazi remain untouched by colored magic.
What It Does
At its base, Eldritch Immunity grants one creature you control protection from each color until the end of the turn. This means the creature cannot be Damaged, Enchanted/Equipped, Blocked, or Targeted (D.E.B.T.) by anything that has one or more colors. If you pay the Overload cost of {4}{C}, the spell no longer targets; instead, it grants this protection to every creature you control simultaneously.
The Overload Mechanic
When you pay the Overload cost, you replace the word 'target' with 'each'. This is a crucial distinction in Magic rules because a spell cast for its Overload cost does not target anything. This allows you to grant protection to your creatures even if they have Shroud or Hexproof, and it prevents opponents from fizzling the spell by removing a specific target in response.
Common Mistakes
A common point of confusion involves 'protection from each color' versus 'protection from everything.' Eldritch Immunity only protects against colored sources; it provides no protection against colorless sources, such as artifacts or other Eldrazi. Additionally, if you are casting a spell 'without paying its mana cost' via another effect, you cannot choose to use the Overload cost; you must cast the single-target version.
When to Play It
Use the base cost to counter a single removal spell like a Path to Exile or to make a creature unblockable against a colored board. Use the Overload cost during combat to swing through a crowded battlefield or in response to a colored board wipe like Blasphemous Act to ensure your army survives unscathed.
Interaction examples
Null Elemental BlastIf your opponent casts Null Elemental Blast to destroy your multicolored Eldrazi, casting Eldritch Immunity will not save it. Because Null Elemental Blast is a colorless spell, 'protection from each color' does not prevent the targeting or the destruction effect.
Warping WailAn opponent attempts to use Warping Wail to exile your 1/1 Eldrazi Scion. If you cast Eldritch Immunity targeting that Scion, it gains protection from each color. However, since Warping Wail is colorless, the protection does not apply, and your creature will still be exiled. Protection only works against the five colors of Magic.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Eldritch Immunity
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Overload doesn't change when you can cast the spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Effects that cause you to pay more or less for a spell will cause you to pay that much more or less while casting it for its overload cost, too.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity + Writhing Chrysalis + Eldritch Immunity
- 1Cast Writhing Chrysalis by paying
. Ulalek and Writhing Chrysalis' first ability trigger. - 2Holding priority, cast Eldritch Immunity by paying .
- 3Ulalek triggers, causing you to pay to copy the Writhing Chrysalis spell, Ulalek's trigger and Writhing Chrysalis' trigger.
- 4Resolve the copy of Writhing Chrysalis' trigger, creating two 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens.
- 5Activate both Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens by sacrificing it, adding .
- 6Resolve the copy of Ulalek's trigger from step 4, causing you to pay to copy the Writhing Chrysalis spell, Ulalek's trigger and Writhing Chrysalis' trigger.
- 7Repeat from step 4.
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