For Challenge # 112. Teruga made me want to work with creatures that grant Absorb, but not to themselves, but to their caster. The idea being that every creature granting Absorb helps solidify the force field.

I like the idea, but it's going to make me stretch the color pie. Obvious in white. Green, perhaps. And while it's very irregular for this to appear in blue, I think it might be fine for 'Absorb 1 you' to be tertiary in blue on some very inefficient creatures, and/or a throw away aside to large creatures, like a 6-cost Air Elemental, and only for this block. Red won't play this game, and that's fine.

Black is trickier. I'm sure one can swing damage prevention in the color, as long as it comes with some sort of cost. Discard, sacrificing permanents and life loss all work. At first I thought I was stretching the flavor of black to do this... but then it occurred to me that Lich variants have been doing this sort of thing for years.

Hmm. It occurs to me that Absorb 1 isn't doing what I was thinking it would do. I kind of thought it would prevent 1 damage if three Goblin Heros attacked you. But it prevents 3; one for each hero. That makes "You have Absorb 1" the equivalent of Urza's Armor. Whoops. Oh, well, I supposed it is doable. Edit: Done.