General's Regalia

The repeatable damage redirection here is one of the stranger defensive engines of its era: for three mana each time, you take a hit that was coming your way and shunt it onto one of your own creatures. The phrasing is deliberate and asymmetric. It only intercepts damage aimed at you, not at your other permanents or your creatures, and the redirect lands on a creature you control, which means the design assumes you have a body you are willing to treat as a damage sponge. That cost structure is what keeps the effect from being a flat prevention shield: every redirect drains both mana and the durability of one of your own creatures, so the card behaves as a life-total firewall rather than free protection. The "source of your choice" clause locks in a single source per activation, so a board full of attackers or a multi-target burn spell still gets through on every threat you did not pay to redirect. It reads as a card built to blunt one oversized swing or a marquee burn spell, the kind of one-big-source threat that defined the period it came from, while doing nothing against go-wide pressure. A defensive artifact whose ceiling is narrow and whose floor depends entirely on having expendable creatures standing around to take the hit.