mtg cards with protection from Global Spells? : r/magicTCG your life total cant change and you gain protection from everything Magic the Gathering (mtg): SNC:

The Yotian Solider joke in the flavor text plays into the same joke but from the opposite end

Master of Death Someone realized they couldnt make a zombified Squee, Goblin Nabob, since Squees immortal and all, so they made Master of Death instead

Once a 3/4 Goyf hits the board, Eidolon is stonewalled and you are looking at having to waste it plus a burn spell to get Goyf off the board

an early Teferi, Hero of Dominaria ticking away

Now that nasty token army doesnt look so bad, does it

Top-down cards are where we try to translate something into Magic mechanics as flavorfully as possible, without much regard for the rest of the set