Resourceful Defense
Enchantment · 
Resourceful Defense is part of 213 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Basking Broodscale and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled.
Resourceful Defense
Enchantment
Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent you control.
- Mana value
- 3
- Color identity
Frequently combined with
The cards that most often join Resourceful Defense in its 100 most popular combos.
Roles in combos
What Resourceful Defense provides to the combos it is part of.
- Permanent that preserves counters when a permanent leaves
- Cards that Remove A Counter Once Per Turn
Combos with Resourceful Defense
213 combos legal in Commander.
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Magistrate's Scepter
Resourceful Defense
+ Spacecraft or Planet
Results in combo:
Infinite turns
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
Darksteel Reactor
Resourceful Defense
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Win the game
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Ashnod's Altar
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Bartolomé del Presidio
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Viscera Seer
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite scry 1
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Carrion Feeder
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Phyrexian Altar
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Eternity Vessel
Darksteel Reactor
Resourceful Defense
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Win the game
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Resourceful Defense
Crystalline Crawler
Branching Evolution
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Resourceful Defense
Crystalline Crawler
Innkeeper's Talent
+2 other prerequisites
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Altar of Dementia
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite mill
Infinite self-mill
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Basking Broodscale
Cathars' Crusade
Resourceful Defense
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Basking Broodscale
Arwen, Weaver of Hope
Resourceful Defense
Results in combo:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Resourceful Defense
Crystalline Crawler
Doubling Season
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: W
Cards in combo:
Eternity Vessel
Magistrate's Scepter
Resourceful Defense
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Near-infinite turns
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Resourceful Defense
Crystalline Crawler
Loading Zone
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Basking Broodscale
Resourceful Defense
Good-Fortune Unicorn
Results in combo:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Resourceful Defense
Crystalline Crawler
The Earth Crystal
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Umbral Collar Zealot
Resourceful Defense
+ 2x Persist Creature
+ Increases +1/+1 Counter Placement but not -1/-1
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite surveil
