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Soltari Priest

Creature — Soltari ClericWhite manaWhite mana

White weenie rarely gets to put a creature this hard to interact with on the board for two mana. Shadow already takes the attacker out of the normal combat math, since only the handful of creatures that also have shadow can stand in its way; in most games that means the 2 power connects every turn unanswered. The protection from red is the piece that elevates this from fast to genuinely frustrating. The reflexive answer to an evasive white threat in its era was to point burn at it, and protection slams that door shut against the very color it races. The result is a clock with two of the three usual outs (chump-blocking and red removal) pre-emptively removed, leaving an opponent to find a non-red kill spell, a sweeper, or a bounce effect before the damage adds up. The single toughness is the tax that buys the rest: anything that does manage to reach it kills it outright, so the threat is real but fragile. What makes this one of the more pointed shadow beaters is the way its two abilities cover separate steps of the turn. Evasion handles the block, protection handles the spell, and the body does the rest. It is the kind of design that reframes the defending player's question from how to trade with the creature to whether they own a card that interacts with it at all.

Soltari Priest (pjse)
PJSE · #1E07rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Protection from red Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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