Magic Enemy George

I'm a Doctor Who fan, have been all my life. I don't like Universes Beyond at all, but it's here and I have to deal with it. So, we just had some Doctor Who cards, and this moment (which I dislike, because the Doctor is not Jesus Christ) wasn't represented in a card. So, here it is.

I had to make an effect that made either a player or creature not do harm, but not harm it either, and it couldn't be stopped. I decided on creature, since now there are creature cards of The Master, it should be able to be used on them. Add 3 life, because I felt that adding a little Healing Salve on top would be just dandy. I then realised I'd made a healing-salve-but-better, which is fine because we should always dunk on Healing Salve because it's shit and the fellow cards of it's cycle are just so much better than it.

Also I recreated the Doctor Who set symbol, as there wasn't a good source of it for the common rarity. I think I did a good job!

Yes, quarrel, meaning a crossbow bolt! Because somehow I thought of that before, I dunno, an argument.

There have been cards of projectiles before, and I continued their trend of doing -X/-X effects, and debilitating effects. I thought of the name of the card quickly, then I went to thinking how that could be reflected in the game in addition to the minus counters.

It took an embarassingly long time for me to remember there's a thing referred to as 'bleed effects' in Magic, where a player loses a 1 life to a repeatable effect.

Oh look, another sad robot! This one is next to a cat!

So I didn't want it to be the same, but I wanted a similar result. Robot's an actual type now (thanks Unfinity!), and I wanted a reason for the robot feel a bit down. It knows it's existence is purely to die, giving a mage knowledge of the places it's been, and leaving behind it's memory bank for them to sift through later. Why give this research-bot full sapience? Wizards are assholes.

Because it isn't as directly useful, I reduced the mana cost from it's inspiration. So unlike Solemn, you can get the land later, which is useful for landfall strategies. Clues instead of a card is also good for some decks.

There's a few 'sad robot' paintings out there, but this one had a cat in it.

I'm a big nerd, so when I saw 'Ring' as the prompt, I immediately thought of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'! What? You thought I'd think of Lord of the Rings? Bah! Too mainstream, normie!

Originally I wanted to make the eponymous Ring, but the cursed ring that lets you control the world but destroys you overtime wasn't something I had an idea how to represent in Magic. But there's another ring in Der Ring...

At the end of 'Die Walküre', the 2nd part of the cycle, Wotan seals a sleeping Brünnhilde behind a perpetual circle of fire that was only breachable by the bravest of heroes, to protect her from being preyed upon by the unworthy (it's worth pointing out that Wotan sentenced her to that fate in the first place, and the fire was only added after Brünnhilde pointed out he was being really damn harsh - Wotan's a jerk!).

So here, the card protects a creature you have from whatever but seals them away, and only a brave creature (non-Coward) approaching can release them. I decided that such a narrow card needed to be cheap and as easily cast as possible, so hybrid mana appears! The effect is very white, but I made it Red/White because Fire, and the reference to the Coward type, which mostly appears on Red cards.