[Protection Week] Card of the Day - Darkskull Blackguard

"Protection from Humans" is a dangerous ability to put on a card. It turns humans into a tribe, something Wizards has tried very hard to steer clear from. It's not exactly a human lord, but it's something.

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[Protection Week] Card of the Day - Shadowscape

Interesting. On a noncreature permanent, "protection from BLANK" is the equivalent of "can't be the target of BLANK spells or abilities." But although they mean the same thing, this way is more elegant. And if anyone should go to the effort of making Shadowscape into a creature, there's no reason it can't have added protection.

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[Protection Week] Card of the Day - Gibbering Skulk

Surprisingly, nothing has protection from tokens yet. Vindictive Mob scurries right on past saprolings and Dogged Hunter eats any kind of token for breakfast, but neither of them are immune to tokeny violence. I think that wizards should print a card with protection from tokens. I'm not so sure that card should be aggressive, though.

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[Protection Week] Card of the Day - Guardian Horror

Guardian Horror was initially designed top-down. I found the art, knew what I wanted the name to be, and designed the card from there. This is not the method of design that I reccomend as practicality can become lost in fervently pursuing your initial ideals. However, it is mighty tempting. In the Horror's case, I think it turned out all right. Guardian angels are supposed to protect you from bad things, and this Horror is a bad thing that protects itself from you.

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[Protection Week] Card of the Day - Hand of Grace

Not what you expected? My apologies.

This is just an icebreaker, if you will. The other cards won't be this simple.

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