While the biggest use for this is definitely making something unblockable, don't forget it can protect your guy from things like Avatar of Woe or, in standard, Arbor Colossus .
SpaceMagic
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If you fail to see this barely hiding fish guy when he's within striking distance of your face, you deserve to die.
Purplerooster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Those would be the exact creatures that you would need protection from. Nice inspiration enabler - attack with the creature regardless of the board state and then activate the trigger at instant speed.
anotherfan321
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Oh man, Wizards is delivering on its promise of printing more "weird protection" as part of Blue's color pie.
At common too. It is nice to see the color pie evolve. Plus, hey, Inspiration and Heroic. Double-duty!
Eternal_Blue
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is a white card masquerading as a blue one. I suppose you could say it is using crypsis. This is just another True-Name Nemesis wherein it uses an uncommon way of wording to ignore that it does the same thing any white cards already do. This card isn't good, but it's still frustrating to see blue's continual colorbleed.
Avensai
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Uhhh.... Why does blue get protection now? Was countering spells, bouncing permanents, and card advantage not enough for it?!
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
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Some of my favorite commons in this block.
GSalty
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Tritons borrow the camouflage of their oceanic prey to become predators on land.
Too bad for the tritons they probably still smell like a bag of rotting fish.
Goatllama
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There are two or three cards in this set where it seems like Wizards is just saying "learn new words, dammit!"
Development is obviously mired in the dilemma of producing combat tricks as heroic enablers for multiple cycles in the same block without overlap.
Why they chose protection over unblockable (that's right, I said it) is beyond me. Crypsis means avoiding detection, not avoiding all damage. Why didn't they just print a Theros version of Artful Dodge? Just (U) sorcery, "Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Scry 1." Makes more sense flavorwise to me.
Clearly, it's getting protection from the creatures by breaking their ice subroutines. Totally blue.
cotf1692
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@DoorDie Well that would be a terrible card because aqueous form. Also with heroic in the deck they needed to print combat tricks for all colors with a variety of abilities
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At common too. It is nice to see the color pie evolve. Plus, hey, Inspiration and Heroic. Double-duty!
Too bad for the tritons they probably still smell like a bag of rotting fish.
Why they chose protection over unblockable (that's right, I said it) is beyond me. Crypsis means avoiding detection, not avoiding all damage. Why didn't they just print a Theros version of Artful Dodge? Just (U) sorcery, "Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Scry 1." Makes more sense flavorwise to me.
At least the protection is temporary unlike everyone's favorite merfolk.
Well that would be a terrible card because aqueous form. Also with heroic in the deck they needed to print combat tricks for all colors with a variety of abilities