Board Protection

Permanents whose ongoing or repeatable ability shields your own creatures and permanents by granting hexproof, indestructible, shroud, or protection from a color. Mother of Runes and Giver of Runes tap to hand out protection each turn; Selfless Savior and Selfless Spirit sacrifice themselves to blank a board wipe with indestructible; Darksteel Forge and Avacyn, Angel of Hope give your whole board indestructible statically; Greater Auramancy and Asceticism cloak your permanents in shroud/hexproof; equipment and auras like Swiftfoot Boots and Whispersilk Cloak carry the grant on a reusable body. Distinct from protection.protection_spell, which is a one-shot instant cast in response (this tag is the permanent-based, repeatable counterpart), from voltron.protection_from_creatures, the narrow subset of auras/equipment granting specifically protection from creatures, from keywords.regeneration, which replaces a single destruction event via the legacy keyword rather than granting a protective keyword, and from voltron.evasion_granter, which hands out flying/menace/unblockable rather than damage-and-removal protection. A creature that merely has hexproof or indestructible itself does not grant it and is excluded.