Welcome back! I think today's card is relatively self-explanatory. The only thing worth pointing out is that you don't need to use the activated ability to play with the numbers. A Moment of Triumph might do in a pinch on your creature, or a So Tiny might be effective on an opponent's creature.

That, and it's going to be really difficult to stop zero power creatures form attacking you with this creature. I recommend enchanting them with a boost instead of trying to make this creature's toughness zero. :D

One more side note. I did think of making this a 0/9 wall, with the ability ": ~ gets -0/-1 until end of turn." I thought that was suitably strange for the sorts of challenges I was giving here. But, I just like the version I posted better. Maybe I'll post the match in NTC #094. Or maybe I can come up with a better use of that mechanic...

But what is this card's name? And what is its creature type?

Name: Hieromancer's Barrier

Type: Illusion Wall

To be fair, I don't really like 'illusion' here but I can't think of another creature type which would represent a magically-conjured summon? Maybe 'Spirit'? What about 'Elemental' or 'Incarnation'? Nothing seems to fit well, sadly!

Ok - so Blessing plus ... something a bit like the coward ability. If this were an enchantment, I'd call it "Coward's Blessing" and have done. Luckily, it's not.

So it's only those of exactly that power that can't attack. Things this can safely block. No problem. So it's not just intimidation of small things. It's... it's like the celestial kirin. Sure, it's triggerring off of toughness instead of arcane casting cost; but it's sort of the same thing.

So Blessed Kirin and as it's more physical - creature type Kirin without the spirit. And I want to see a cycle now. Blue probably stops spells wih cmc equal to toughness, red probably is probably the exact mirror to this but says they can't block. Not really sure what green and black get, though.

Icatian Peacemaker
Creature - Human Soldier

The size and effect both made me think of someone marching out ahead of an army trying to stop an incipient battle.

Whirling-hand Sentry
Creature - Human Monk

Art: Doing Morpheus' "come at me" gesture :)

Don't know if it was done in the new DND themed set but

Prismatic Wall Creature - Wall Elemental Illusion

Voting is up! Click here to choose your favorite name!

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I missed the deadline, but I'm going to throw out Bull Aurochs, staring down a Savannah Lion that's slinking away

Jack wins with Icatian Peacemaker. If I could have added Bull Aurochs to the poll after the fact, I would have. ;)

See everybody in (((NTC #094)))!