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Dive Downprotection$0.16A cheap blue protection spell that helps a creature survive removal, with a stronger bonus if you pay an additional mana. It plays a similar role as an instant-speed defensive trick for one creature.Slip Out the Backprotection$4.21Protects a creature from removal at instant speed by phasing it out, often saving it while also adding a counter. It fills the same one-mana blue protection slot with a different form of defense.Mizzium Skinprotection$0.14Very close functional match: a low-cost combat trick that can be kicked for broader protection. It is one of the nearest analogs to Shell Shield in color and spell structure.Apostle's Blessingprotection$0.28A flexible protection spell that can shield a creature from removal or combat by changing protection. Though it uses life or mana rather than kicker, it serves a similar defensive role.Shore Upprotection$0.24A one-mana blue instant that protects a creature while also improving combat stats. It is a clean, efficient alternative for saving a creature at instant speed.Sheltering Lightprotection$0.28A cheap protection trick that can save a creature from damage or destruction and sometimes scries. It occupies the same role of a small defensive instant for one creature.Aqueous Formutility$0.40This is not an instant, but it provides blue-based evasion and protection-like utility for a single creature. It is a common alternative when the goal is keeping a key creature hard to interact with.Distortion Strikeutility$0.50A low-cost blue tempo trick that makes a creature harder to block and can be recast via rebound. It is less defensive than Shell Shield, but serves a similar one-creature support role in blue.
