Progenitus
Protection from everything is the cleanest expression of an absolute the game rarely grants: no spell can target it, no color of damage can mark it, no aura or equipment can stick, and no block or chump can stop it. Designers have spent decades hedging keyword protection with "from a color" or "from creatures"; this strips the qualifier entirely, which is why the body is functionally untouchable by the rules-text answers most decks lean on. The shuffle clause hardens that further on one specific axis: anything that would send it to a graveyard (an edict, a sacrifice effect, lethal damage that somehow lands) instead reshuffles it, so an opponent who clears it that way has only delayed the next draw. The escape hatch is exile. Untargeted mass exile sidesteps both protection and the graveyard trigger, and that is the seam in an otherwise airtight design: the unkillable thing is still removable, just not permanently by the tools that read "destroy" or "damage." The price for all of it is the cost line, a true rainbow demand of two of every color, which makes the card less a curve-topper than a payoff for a fixed mana engine willing to do the work. It is finality built from the defender's side, deliberately gated behind the hardest mana commitment a single permanent can ask for, and balanced by the one verb that ignores the graveyard entirely.

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- Foundations#431
- Foundations#441
- Foundations#244
- Foundations Promos#244s
- The List#CON-121
- Grand Prix Promos#2017
- Modern Masters#182
- From the Vault: Legends#9








