Cho-Manno, Revolutionary

Damage prevention produces a creature that combat simply cannot resolve. Block anything, attack into anything: the damage that would be dealt back never lands, so a two-power body trades up forever as long as the fight stays in the damage column. The catch lives in the same clause that does the work. Prevention answers damage and stops there, so the entire suite of non-damage removal walks right through: a destroy effect, an exile, an edict, minus-toughness, bounce. He dares the format to handle him without burning him, which in a damage-heavy environment is a real ask and in a removal-heavy one is no ask at all. The prevention shield has aged into a clean teaching case: it isolates the difference between "damage" and "destruction" as sharply as any card in the game. The body is small on purpose. Make the shield matter and you have to put it on something that wins fights it has no business winning; make the body big and the prevention turns redundant. Two power is the rate that keeps the trick honest. He carries the Rebel banner in flavor and anchors the faction's tutor chain as a high-cost target worth searching for, but the card itself does no searching. The shield is all he brings, and all he needs to.