Shivan Zombie

Protection from white welded to a cheap two-drop is a hatebear with the politeness scraped off: this body cannot be Swords to Plowshares'd, shrugs off white's combat damage, and refuses to be blocked by any white creature, including the tokens white loves to gum the ground up with. Against a white deck it is immune to the color that historically owns spot removal and combat math. The catch is that the design is purely reactive. Protection from white does nothing in the mirror or against blue and green, so the card is only as good as the metagame's white share; it is a tuning knob, not an engine. The casting cost is the odd wrinkle: black and red already field their own answers to white creatures, which makes the narrow hatred here more of a statement than a plan. It belongs to a design era that handed out single-color protection on cheap, gold-costed bodies and trusted players to read the room: protection-from-a-color as a recurring lever, a creature earning its slot by being aggressively pointed rather than broadly good. As a fair Phyrexian Barbarian Zombie beater it is unremarkable; as an artifact of multicolor-identity design that priced a creature's value entirely in matchup matter, it is exactly on theme.