Valeron Outlander

Protection from black on a 2/2 in the green-white pairing is hate dressed as a beater, and the dual color cost tells you exactly whose game plan it was built to spoil. Protection from black does four discrete things on this body: it can't be targeted by black spells or abilities, it can't be blocked by black creatures, it prevents damage from black sources, and it can't be enchanted or equipped by black effects (the last almost never comes up). That cleanly answers the spot removal black leans on (the doom-style destruction and burn-style point removal that target a creature), and it lets the body attack into black blockers untouched. What it does not answer is the rest of black's toolkit: an edict makes you sacrifice and never targets the protected creature, and discard hits the card in hand before it ever becomes a creature. The protection is narrow by design and that narrowness is the whole bargain. It answers exactly one color: a red burn spell, a white wrath, or a colorless artifact ends it with no friction at all. This is the classic shape of the color hoser given a pulse, a body that is a hard wall against one color and a vanilla 2/2 against everything else, costed aggressively because the hate is conditional. The asymmetry between its ceiling against black and its floor against the field is the entire design.