Awesome art. Wonder which tail is the hail-tail?? An actual permanent worthy of the Legendary status, which is pretty rare; especially when you look back on older sets like Legends, Homelands, Fallen Empire, Portal 1-3, etc.

  -- By Jay from Minneapolis, MN USA on December 25, 2010

if your oppenent is playing a shroud deck, well this card is useless. But its still cool card. Nice art work.

  -- By dakota forsythe from hammond on November 15, 2010

if your oppenent is playing a shroud deck, well this card is useless. But its still cool card. Nice art work.

  -- By dakota forsythe from hammond on November 15, 2010

The reason why I love this card is because it is so versatile. If you want to make your attacking creatures unblockable, use 8 1/2 before attack. If you want your opponent to block your creatures and then have yours take no combat damage, use 8 1/2 as a stack ability during combat. If you want to stop any of your cards from being targeted, if you want to remove an already existed enchantment like Control Magic or Treachery on a creature of yours, the list goes on and on. The only thing this card can't do is stop counterspells and cards with shroud.

  -- By Tex from MA on December 11, 2009

wrath of god still kills your creatures because it doesn't say "target" in wrath of god. protection is only good if your creature is being targeted by a spell or ability, in addition to the other things that it does. very nice, though. and only 2 mana!

  -- By greg from here on January 24, 2009

combine with Wrath of god and give your stuff protection from white and you can completely turn the game in your favor.

  -- By that guy from CA on December 29, 2008

I love this card, though instead of defense, I use it in a black destruction deck. It removes all those nasty non-black requirements from things like terror and dark banishing. Though making my avatar of woes invincible is a plus as well. ^_^ fear + this card = "lol u can't block my 6/5"

  -- By Mitch Francis from Santa Cruz on March 11, 2008

I think this is a good card (unlike what "the guy from the table" said).

  -- By Anonymous from yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo on March 02, 2006

Can you say CRAZY! OMG! This has to be one of the most valuable additions to my deck. All you need is enough mana and you have the ultumate protection tool for any of your creatures... just remember to protect yourself. Alas, all I need now is something to compliment it by protecting my life points directly. Mistaaa!

  -- By Lonnie from Cali on January 13, 2006

As is said above if you've got mana enugh is the absolute blocker, and is one of the best white creatures in the game as well, hardly reccomended.

  -- By Thelonius from Barcelona,Spain on August 20, 2005

Eaisily one of the best cards not only in Kamigawa but Magic as a whole. Combined with Pious Kitsune(s) you can eaisly put your life total through the roof (I got mine as high as 625!), as well as put up an iron clad defense against pretty much anything your opponent can throw at you.

  -- By Sean Fuoti from Reading, PA USA on February 11, 2005

This card is meant for those who really shouldn't be playing magic, they just have no other skill in life, so they spend Mom and Dads money to pretend they're good at one thing.

  -- By Anonymous from Mesa, AZ USA on December 30, 2004

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooost favoured fox! #1 2/2 card! back of fat pack!

  -- By boris chiu from hong kong on December 29, 2004

The ultimate card for defense! It's like all five circles of protection! A MUST HAVE!

  -- By J.R.R from Medford, OR on December 18, 2004

This card if you have enough mana is the ultimate blocker. However slap him in a deck with four COP White and he becomes the ultimate damage stopper. Eight and a Half Tails is at this point my favorite creature in Magic. Support him with Northern and Southern Paladins and Sleight of Mind to destroy what ever you want for WW1 as all will be white.

  -- By David Holcomb from Woodward, Ok USA on November 03, 2004

Awsome card! Can turn other players creatures white, then give your permanents protection from white! It's also a 2/2 for two white.

  -- By Anonymous from Madison, WI USA on October 13, 2004