Samite Elder

Most protection effects name a single color and point at a creature; this one inverts the granting end. By tapping and pointing at a permanent you already control, you hand your whole board protection from every color that permanent carries, which makes the choice of target the entire decision. The catch is what feeds the ability: lands are colorless, so a basic Plains gives you nothing, and the activation is only as wide as the colors actually painted on a permanent you control. Point at a gold creature or anything with two or more colors in its mana cost and you blanket your team against all of them at once, which turns multicolored permanents into ammunition rather than mere bodies. Reusability is the real difference from a one-shot protection spell: every turn the team can be made unblockable by a chosen color, can dodge a removal spell of that color, or can walk through a combat step against attackers wearing it. The cleric's own body contributes almost nothing; the value lives in the activation and in how reliably you can field a permanent whose colors line up against the threat in front of you. It quietly rewards decks running gold permanents specifically to widen the menu, an unusual deckbuilding pull for a creature whose presence on the board is otherwise so slight.