Karona's Zealot

The flip trigger does something stranger than a combat trick: when this creature turns face up, every point of damage that would hit it this turn is rerouted onto a creature of your choosing. That window is what makes the cost worth holding for. A face-down 2/2 blocks, an attacker commits to the trade, and on the unmorph the damage it was trying to deal lands on a target you pick instead, killing it outright while the Zealot takes nothing. A burn spell pointed at the body becomes removal aimed somewhere else. The redirection covers all damage to the creature for the turn, so the 5 toughness is almost beside the point: the Zealot does not survive by absorbing the hit, it survives by never receiving it, and the loss lands on whatever creature you nominate. The trick is one block deep (no extra blocking ability hides under the morph), so the play is precise rather than sweeping: bait one attacker or one spell, then route the consequences elsewhere. This is white combat math disguised as defense, rewarding the player who tracks the exchange a step ahead and treats the flip as a held threat rather than a creature already spent. The Karona tie is flavor wrapping; the mechanism underneath is a clean damage-shunt built to punish overcommitment, a costume change on the kind of redirection white has been printing in various shapes for a long time.