Squee's Toy

The single point of prevention is the whole joke. Squee, the goblin who could not stay dead, gets a toy that prevents exactly one damage per turn for the price of tapping it: the smallest unit of mitigation the rules allow, on a permanent that can only do it once before it has to untap. That puts the card at the literal floor of what damage prevention can be. Tempest carried a thread of intentionally lighthearted commons, and this one exists to characterize Squee rather than to fill a slot in a deck. The prevention is too small and too slow to matter against anything but a single point of incidental burn, and even there it spends a whole turn's tap to blank one point that a real defensive card would have turned into something. Its more functional cousins, the prevention effects attached to creatures like Samite Healer, either scale or come stapled to a body that can do other work; this one prevents one, full stop, forever, and never grows. Read it as worldbuilding in artifact form: a piece of flavor about a beloved goblin that happens to be a legal card.