Phyrexian Vindicator

The quadruple-white pip is the whole gate: a 5/5 flyer for four is already above rate, and the color commitment is what buys the rest. Damage prevention on a creature is old white technology (Circle of Protection is the archetypal ancestor), but bolting a redirection clause onto a body that cannot be burned or blocked into death rewrites how combat and removal resolve around it. Every point aimed at this creature (a Lightning Bolt, a chump block from a 1/1, a swing from something bigger) is prevented and mailed to a target of your choosing. Removal that deals damage becomes a gift; blocking becomes a way to snipe your own board or your own face. The redirection is not optional and it targets, so the prevented damage still needs somewhere legal to go, but in practice the clause turns the attacker's own math against them. It sidesteps the classic flaw of a prevention shield (that the creature just sits there while you get chipped elsewhere) by making the shield itself a weapon. Crucially, deathtouch does not answer it: the replacement effect prevents the damage before it is ever dealt, and deathtouch keys off damage that actually lands. What still resolves it cleanly is anything that never deals damage in the first place: sacrifice effects, exile removal, enchantment-based control, minus-toughness. What it beats is the burn-and-fight subgame that white has always struggled to survive on the ground, taking one of the color's oldest passive tools and making it punish engagement.