Circle of Protection: Red
Mana cost {1}{W}.
{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Circle of Protection: Red is a white card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Tempest printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.41) · TCGplayer ($0.36) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.11 and €0.44 in that time.
How often Circle of Protection: Red is played
Circle of Protection: Red is kept in 13 sideboards (10%); used by 10 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 52 decks that can cast white cards, 13 of them play it (25%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Sideboard plans with Circle of Protection: Red
- Terrageddon vs. Sligh. Circle of Protection: Red, in about four in ten sideboards, is the other common choice: for {1} it prevents the damage the next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn.
- Landstill vs. Red decks: Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution. Circle of Protection: Red, in 85 percent of sideboards, prevents the next damage a red source of your choice would deal to you this turn, for {1} each time; it does not protect your creatures.
- Deadguy Ale vs. Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution. Circle of Protection: Red is in more than four of five sideboards and Warmth in about two of three.
- Tron vs. Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution. Circle of Protection: Red is in almost every sideboard: once the lands are online, each {1} prevents the next damage from one red source of your choice.
- The Solution vs. Other red builds and the white-blue build. Circle of Protection: Red, in about two of five red sideboards, joins the plan against the red decks, Cleansing Meditation, in about half, the plan against Enchantress and Replenish, and a few lists bring Hibernation against Elves.
- Dromar Control vs. Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution. Circle of Protection: Red and Warmth, each in some lists, add protection against burn.
- White Weenie vs. Sligh, Goblins and RG Zoo. Against Sligh, in: Absolute Law, Circle of Protection: Red and the second Cursed Scroll; out: both Armageddon and a Tithe, keeping Disenchant and Seal of Cleansing for Seal of Fire, Cursed Scroll and Sulfuric Vortex. Against RG Zoo, in: Absolute Law, Circle of Protection: Red and both Reprisal; out: both Armageddon and two Tithe. Absolute Law gives every creature protection from red, so burn, Mogg Fanatic, Pyrokinesis and Simoon cannot touch your board, and Circle of Protection: Red prevents the damage a red source would deal to you, for {1} each time; Enlightened Tutor finds either.
- White Weenie vs. Landstill, Tron, BW Control, Dromar Control and The Solution. Against The Solution also bring Absolute Law and Circle of Protection: Red; out: Worship, Glorious Anthem and two Tithe.
- BW Control vs. Sligh and Goblins. Circle of Protection: Red prevents the next damage from a red source for one mana each time, and Warmth gains 2 life for every red spell they cast; almost every sideboard plays one of them.
- Rebels vs. Sligh, Goblins, The Solution and Gro-a-Tog. Circle of Protection: Red and Absolute Law are each in about half of the sideboards. Absolute Law gives every creature protection from red, so Lightning Bolt, the Fire half of Fire // Ice and Grim Lavamancer cannot target your Rebels and red creatures deal them no combat damage; Circle of Protection: Red keeps red damage off you.
- Turbo Lands vs. Sligh and Goblins. Circle of Protection: Red, in about half the sideboards, prevents the next damage a red source of your choice would deal to you this turn each time you pay {1}: the first line of defense before Glacial Chasm arrives and a second one after a Wasteland.
Tournament decks with Circle of Protection: Red
- Deadguy Ale: 2nd Place at Sword Luderia (1× sideboard)
- Rebels: 2nd Place at Premodern Bilbao 2026 (2× sideboard)
- Perros de Avellaneda: 7th Place at Technoliga Valenciana (1× sideboard)
- Treva Oath Control: 8th Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 (1× sideboard)
- RW Goblins: 2nd Place at Fight Club #1 @ Barcelona (2× sideboard)
- Junk Nightmare: 1st Place at Premodern Monthly (1× sideboard)
- Deadguy Angels: 1st Place at Lega Premodern La Contea (2× sideboard)
- UW Landstill: 1st Place at New England Summer Regional (1× sideboard)
- Mono W Tron: 2nd Place at Premodern at the Port (2× sideboard)
- Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (1× sideboard)
- Turbo Lands: 1st Place at MTGO Contraption League (2× sideboard)
- UW Control: 1st Place at Moxforge League May 2026 (3× sideboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (1× sideboard)
