Witchbane Orb

Hexproof printed on a colorless permanent, sold to anyone willing to spend a turn and four mana on insurance. The trade is unusually pure: it does nothing to advance your own board, generates no card, and protects only you (not your creatures, not your planeswalkers), yet it shuts off every targeted spell or ability an opponent aims at you in a single static line. That makes it a hatebear in artifact clothing, a card built less to win games than to deny a specific way of losing them. The Curse clause is the tell about where the design came from: an era when a class of enchantments attached themselves to a player and ground them out, and this was the dedicated answer that swept them all at once on the way in. Strip that context away and what remains is a colorless tax on interaction itself: an answer to mill-the-library and burn-the-face combo lines, to discard that names your hand, to anything that wins by pointing at you rather than at your permanents. The hexproof is one-directional, since it only stops opponents from targeting you; your own spells and abilities still reach you fine, which means it never gets in the way of life gain or protective tricks you cast yourself. It is a narrow card by intent, and most useful where a single player's life total or library is the whole game plan an opponent is trying to attack.