Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer
A hoser with a body attached, and the split between its two static clauses is the whole design brief. Half the text is pure protection: any spell that would burn you or your board simply doesn't, which folds Lightning Bolt, sweepers, and every "deal damage to target" effect into blanks so long as the target is yours. The other half is aggression: your own damage-dealing spells hit their side for one extra apiece, so a two-color burn shell turns this into a global damage amplifier that also happens to fly in for two with haste. The card wins by pointing spells at faces, and it punishes the mirror by neutering the opponent's identical plan while sharpening your own. The elegance is that the anti-red hate lives in the "prevent" clause and the win condition lives in the "plus 1" clause, so the same card that shrugs off the other player's burn is the one accelerating yours. The asymmetry runs on spell damage only: creatures still connect through it in combat, and the prevention shield covers permanents you control as well as your face, so it protects a fragile board against targeted burn without touching combat math. Sideboard-grade text riding on a proactive three-drop is a rarer combination than it looks: most hate this pointed asks you to spend a card doing nothing else, while this one attacks.
