Soul Parry

Damage prevention has always been the awkward middle child of white's defensive toolkit, and the split-target clause is where this one earns its slot: rather than fogging an entire turn or wrapping a single blocker in a Healing Salve, it neutralizes the offensive output of up to two specific creatures for the turn. One target answers a single threat cleanly; two blunts a coordinated swing, defusing a creature pair without committing to a board-wide effect. Because it works by prevention rather than removal, it sidesteps indestructibility, regeneration, and "can't be destroyed" clauses entirely: the creatures stay on the battlefield, they simply do nothing with their power this turn. That makes it a poor permanent answer and a precise tempo tool, an instant-speed shrug aimed at combat math rather than the board state. The catch is the same one that has always kept prevention spells off the top tables: it buys a single turn and leaves the threat standing, so it trades a card for a moment rather than a card for a card. Against an aggressive draw it can erase a lethal turn; against anything grindy it is a stall, not a solution. Within white's prevention lineage it sits squarely as a role-player, surviving in spots where outlasting the next attack is the entire problem to solve.