Commencement of Festivities

The Fog effect has always sold a single turn of survival at the cheapest possible rate, and this version buys it with a narrowing tweak: the prevention applies only to combat damage aimed at players, not at creatures. That distinction is the whole design lever. A classic Fog scrambles the entire combat math, saving blockers and attackers alike; this one lets your creatures die to blocks and your opponent's die to your swing while the players walk away untouched. It reads as a downgrade until you reframe it as a one-sided combat reset that protects your face without freezing the board around it. The green tradition here runs deep, and the recurring design problem is the same one every Fog confronts: a card that does nothing to the board state and only resets one combat step is brutally efficient at stalling but offers nothing on an empty board or against noncombat damage. The player-only clause sharpens that into a more honest deal, since it stops being a blanket "skip combat" button and becomes a tool for racing situations where you want bodies to trade while your life total stays intact. It exists to test whether the restriction changes how the effect plays rather than to replace the staple version, and it mostly does what the genre always does: turns two mana into one more turn.