Akroma, Angel of Fury

The white original armored herself against black and red, the colors of the point removal and burn that punish a high-cost flier. Recast through red's lens, the defensive logic holds but the enemies rotate: protection from white and from blue now wards off the control colors her aggression was built to break, not the aggressive colors that would race her. Protection from white blanks targeted exile and any point removal that singles her out; protection from blue blunts bounce and the rest of blue's pinpoint answers. The "can't be countered" clause handles a separate window, the one a control deck would otherwise use to deal with an eight-mana threat while it sits on the stack, because protection only works once she is on the battlefield and does nothing to a spell waiting to resolve. Where the white version won combat with static abilities, this one converts mana into power, the repeatable pump turning a stalled board into a lethal attack step. The protection is pointed, not total: black removal touches her freely, and white and blue keep an out through nontargeting sweepers like Wrath of God, where protection is inert. Morph is the price concession, a face-down 2/2 for three that can itself be countered like any other spell, then flipped face up as a special action that bypasses the stack entirely. The whole suite is hexproof's structural job aimed at one pair of enemies: a red beater wearing control's toolbox as armor.