Daily Card Redesign #89: Zhalfirin Crusader

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

Redesign:

The original design was cool, but it doesn't make sense given the art. The Knight is only blocking the spell, or perhaps absorbing it through his sword. There isn't any ricochet happening, unless that sword charges up over time and unleashes it power. Which doesn't seem to be the case.

So I gave him hexproof. Because he, as a sentient and intelligent person, wouldn't try to block spells or abilities that grant him more power/functionality. Nay, he would let it happen. Thus, hexproof instead of shroud.