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Blessed Breathprotection$0.11A white combat trick that can protect your team from a color of your choice and can also support defensive combat math. It fills a similar “save or stall the board” role at instant speed.Emerge Unscathedprotection$0.35This is a cheap white instant that can protect one creature and has rebound for extra value. It’s not a team-wide toughness boost, but it serves a similar defensive combat role.Make a Standprotection$0.21An instant-speed team protection spell that also gives your creatures a temporary power/toughness boost. It’s a closer functional analogue for protecting a board against damage-based combat tricks.Rootborn Defensesprotection$0.21Protects your creatures from destruction while creating an additional token, making it a strong defensive blowout. It overlaps with Bar the Door as a white instant meant to preserve a wide board.Unbreakable Formationprotection$1.09A stronger version of a board-protection combat trick that can also permanently buff the team in main phase. It covers the same “don’t die in combat” function and is a strict upgrade in many decks.Sheltering Lightprotection$0.28Cheap protection for a single creature with a scry rider. It’s a budget-friendly defensive instant in the same color, though narrower than Bar the Door.Guard DutyutilityBudget$0.04A simple white defensive aura that neutralizes an attacker or blocker by reducing its impact. While not an instant, it serves a similar stall-the-board purpose in white.Midnight Hauntingutility$0.20Creates extra blockers at instant speed, which can functionally help survive combat the way Bar the Door does. It’s a common white defensive alternative for token-based stalls.
