Voice of Grace

The flying body and the protection clause point at the same target: a creature built to clock an opponent's black deck and ignore most of what that deck wants to do about it. Protection from black means it cannot be blocked by black creatures, cannot be targeted by black removal, takes no damage from black sources, and shrugs off black enchantments and auras. In an era when the premier removal spells and the most feared evasive threats lived in black, that profile was a deliberate hate piece dressed as an Angel. It belongs to a cycle of "Voice" creatures, each a 2/2 flier with protection from a single color, each pricing the same body at four mana with a narrow but absolute defense. The design logic is older than the cycle: white has always paid for protection as a keyword because protection is not a downside-free ability but a wall that turns off an entire color's interaction in one matchup while doing nothing in the others. A 2/2 flier for is unremarkable; a 2/2 flier that a mono-black deck can barely touch is a different card against the right opponent and a plain flier against the wrong one. That swing between irrelevant and untouchable is the entire reason the card exists, and it is why protection cards age into reactive answers rather than proactive threats.