Lumbering Lightshield

Perpetually is what makes this card function at all: a permanent modification that follows a card across zone changes and cannot be undone, one that turns an otherwise unremarkable 1/4 into a soft tax engine. The body is defensive filler, four toughness on a two-drop, but the enter trigger reaches into an opponent's hand and staples a lasting cost increase onto a random nonland card, a surcharge that stays glued to that specific card whether it is drawn, discarded, bounced, or recast. This is not hard denial; it is friction that lingers, incremental disruption that presumes a client capable of tracking a modification attached to a card rather than a permanent on the battlefield. The randomness is the honest part of the design: you do not pick the threat, so the tax lands on whatever the opponent happened to be holding, not on their best card. That imprecision is exactly why the effect can be permanent without breaking anything. The interesting work happens in the tracking rather than the text, where paper cannot follow along, and where the real contribution is not the modest body but the invisible surcharge it leaves behind. Perpetual effects like this one only exist in a digital environment for a reason: they demand a game engine that can carry a card-level modifier through hidden zones, which is a piece of state no physical game could ever be trusted to keep straight.