Nacatl Savage

Protection from artifacts is one of the narrowest protection grants Magic prints, and that narrowness is the entire point of this card. Protection in green is rare to begin with, and when it shows up it tends to point at a specific threat the set's metagame is built around. Here the protection answers an artifact-heavy environment: it can't be blocked by artifact creatures, takes no damage from them, ignores artifact-based removal, and shrugs off equipment and artifact auras alike. On a two-power body that costs two mana, the protection is the body's whole reason to exist, since a 2/1 trades down against almost anything in a fair fight but slips past an opponent leaning on artifact blockers and artifact removal entirely. It is a sideboard-shaped creature stapled into the maindeck, the kind of design that lives or dies by how much artifact density it expects to face. Outside that context the keyword does nothing and the stats fend for themselves, which is why protection-from-artifacts creatures have always been answers to a moment rather than evergreen staples: they are sharp when the format gives them a target and inert when it doesn't.