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Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Legendary Creature — Fox ClericWhite manaWhite mana

The two abilities pull in opposite directions, and that opposition is the whole engine. The first grants protection from white to your own permanents, which on a board of white creatures reads like nothing; the second turns any spell or permanent white at instant speed, which is where the trick fires. Point the colorizer at an opposing creature, then hand protection to your blocker (or your attacker), and combat resolves in your favor with no damage dealt. Aim the color-change at a removal spell on the stack, give the targeted permanent protection from white, and the spell falls off for lack of a legal target. The same loop neutralizes auras, blocks an enemy attacker without trading, and saves a creature from a white burn or destruction effect that would otherwise be unconditional. It is a defensive Spellshaper-adjacent puzzle box built almost entirely around the protection-from-white keyword, an ability most decks treat as a flavor rounding error rather than a weapon. The cost is repeatability gated behind mana: each pass needs two activations and the white-source mana to back them, so it taxes a turn rather than ending one. That makes it less a finisher than a permission structure, a permanent that quietly says "no" to white-based interaction for as long as the mana holds out, and rewards the player who already knows exactly which permanents on the table are worth protecting.

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails (chk)
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Normal: $1.29
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Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaWhite mana: Target permanent you control gains protection from white until end of turn. 1 generic mana: Target spell or permanent becomes white until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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