Oracle's Attendants

The redirection effect here is the structural curiosity: tap to make this creature the lightning rod for whatever damage you choose, from whatever source you choose, for the duration of the turn. The 1/5 body is the whole point. With five toughness it survives almost any single hit it volunteers to absorb, so the attendants function as a reusable shield that walks itself in front of the swing. The source-of-your-choice clause changes the math of defense: you are not declaring a blocker and trading a creature, you are intercepting one specific damage event wherever it would land, which means it can soak a burn spell, a combat hit, or a damage-based removal effect aimed at a creature you want to keep. The wording sets up a small puzzle every activation: choose the target creature being protected and the source whose damage gets rerouted, then point all of that source's damage into the attendants instead. This is preventive, board-stabilizing white from an era when fog effects and damage redirection carried real weight, before lifegain and tax effects took over the color's defensive toolkit. The tap cost is what holds the design in check: one redirection per turn, so a repeatable damage sink never tips into locking opponents out of attacking and burning forever.