Defensive Formation
Enchantment
Mana cost: {W}
How we read this card
Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.
Causes: nothing.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Defensive Formation is one).
When Defensive Formation is cast:
- Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
- Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
- Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
- Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
- Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
- Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
- Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
- Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
- Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card
255 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Defensive Formation is one).
- Historian's Boon — When Defensive Formation enters, Historian's Boon makes a token
an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Defensive Formation is one).
When Defensive Formation enters:
- Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
- Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
- Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
- Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
- Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
- Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
- Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
- Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
- Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
- Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card
58 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.