General's Kabuto

Shroud and total combat-damage prevention stacked on one Equipment make a fortress designed to render a single creature functionally unkillable on the battlefield, and the two clauses cover each other's gaps with unusual precision. Shroud locks out targeted removal: the burn spell, the destroy-target-creature line, the targeted removal that names its prey. The damage prevention closes the door combat would otherwise leave open, so blockers and attackers alike bounce off. What survives that wall is exactly the set of effects that route around both: board wipes that destroy without targeting, sacrifice clauses, minus-toughness sweepers, anything that says "each creature" rather than "target creature." That residual vulnerability is the whole reasoning behind the price. The wearer becomes an attacker that cannot be blocked to death and a blocker that cannot be killed in combat, which turns an otherwise modest body into a perpetual threat or an immovable wall depending on which side of the red zone you point it at. The shroud creates one wrinkle worth knowing precisely: it protects only against targeting by other things. The equip ability targets the destination creature, not the one already wearing the gear, so moving General's Kabuto to a fresh host works normally; what you lose is the ability to re-target the protected creature with anything else, including your own auras and pump spells. The discipline of that tradeoff is more interesting than the four-mana cost suggests.