Dazzling Beauty
Most evasion answers say "can't attack" or "gains a blocker"; this one says "becomes blocked," and that single phrasing is what lets it touch a creature no wall could ever reach. The casting restriction makes the targeting legible: it can only be played once attacks are declared and the only open question is which attackers connect, so taking an unblocked creature and forcing it into the blocked state is a surgical intervention that turns a clean swing into nothing. The parenthetical reminder explains why the card exists at all, since unblockable threats and fliers without available blockers are exactly the problem it solves. The cantrip is deliberately throttled by delay: the replacement arrives at the following upkeep rather than on resolution, so you commit the answer now and collect the reward only if you live to cash it. Fired on an opponent's attack, that draw lands on your own next turn, not a full cycle later, but the gap is enough to discourage firing it on speculation. It belongs to an early instinct toward combat-step puzzles, where instants rewrote the blocking math instead of removing the creature outright, and where the payoff sat one turn downstream of the decision: a patience the modern game rarely demands of a three-mana trick.
