Hedron-Field Purists

Damage prevention has always been a clunky tool to package: a flat reduction that scales poorly against a single huge threat, and asks the player to spend cards or mana on defense that produces no board presence. This Cleric answers that by stapling the prevention to a body and routing the investment through level counters, so every activation grows toward a creature that can actually hold a flank. The numbers are deliberately modest: shaving one point off each incoming source matters most against a wide attack of small creatures, where the prevention applies to your whole side at once and turns a profitable swing into a wash. Reaching the second tier doubles the reduction and firms the body up, which is the difference between blunting tokens and blunting a real threat. Worth noting how the prevention is structured: it covers you and your creatures together but caps per source, so it never produces the kind of blowout that white's more dramatic fog effects can. This is incremental defense as a permanent: a static tax on every attacker rather than a one-shot wall, the sort of grindy, attrition-minded design that rewards a deck willing to sit behind it and let the leveled-up version slowly tilt every combat math problem in its favor.