It's like babies. Babies start out female-ish, and then a gene has to go off in order to turn Xs into Ys and make baby boys. Magic cards are probably exactly the same in development; everyone sits around casting every spell with Islands, until someone goes "guys I know this sucks, but we should *probably* make sure this ramp spell is Green" and everyone goes "UGH whatEVER"Originally Posted by DragoFireheart
Apparently, buried deep within the archives of MTG articles, they decided years ago to make sure that "protection from [colors]" is White, but "protection from [other stuff]" is Blue. Players are definitely within the realm of "other stuff".
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I hate this because it's easy to just say, "these are different abilities because they have different words in them, so they are not the same because they are different and you can't safely cast Starstorm when you control TNN, n00b rtfc". But the functional upshot is that 1v1 Magic basically lets protection from the opponent become the equivalent of protection from everything, which is better in all the ways that matter. I'm going to go way out on a limb -- so far that it almost reaches the thread for going out on a limb, but not quite -- and say that in a competitive situation no one has ever looked at their Progenitus and felt like it really needed to interact with Giant Growth effects, but since it doesn't it must be 'strictly worse' than some other giant protection creature.
To that end, I think that it's fair to say that "in all the ways that matter" protection from player just picks up protection from color by its dirty dollar-bin collar and kicks it in the penis. And it doesn't even feel it because it's got protection from the penis that player controls, so it's all like, "I could probs just kick ya in the penis all day, Mother of Runes."
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