Llanowar Shaman

[Machinus]

Llanowar Shaman
1G
Creature - Elf Druid
Whenever you lose life to a source an opponent controls, put a charge counter on Llanowar Shaman.
Remove a charge counter from Llanowar Shaman: until end of turn, you cannot lose life to a source an opponent controls.
2/1

[zeus-online]

Wouldnt this work on damage as well? Damage causes life loss afterall...

Having a two mana card that does a fog every second turn is pretty good!

/Zeus

[GerryMander]

i'd rather this be damage.  Life loss hasn't been preventable since the beginning of magic, so why start now?

[LordHomerCat]

I echo the poster above me.  That's the unique part of Life Loss, that it CAN'T be prevented.  Please don't try and start now.

[Machinus]

There are plenty of cards that can prevent life loss. I don't see the problem with that. Actually, I was wondering if this should be green or white.

[LordHomerCat]

Such As?  Off the top of my head i can't think of any.

[Anusien]

Protection and prevention are all white.

And it should be damage.  Life loss can't be prevented.  At all.

[parallax]

There are better ways to hose Tendrils decks than this. I don't like life loss being prevented. The whole point of life loss is it can't be prevented like damage can.

I don't think this would trigger off damage. If a source your opponent controls deals damage to you, the game rules cause you to lose life. Sort of like the Lightning Bolt-Mishra's Factory-Sacred Ground interaction.

I think this would be a better wording:
Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to lose life, put a something-other-than-charge counter on ~this~.
Remove a sotc counter from ~this~: Until end of turn, if a spell or ability an opponent controls would cause you to lose life, instead lose no life.

[netherspirit]

What about:

Llanowar Shaman
1G
Creature - Elf Druid
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, put a fog counter on Llanowar Shaman.
Remove a fog counter from Llanowar Shaman: Until end of turn, all damage dealt to you by a source an opponent controls is reduced to 0.
2/1

I just chose fog counters for old time's sake. Oh the good old days of Fog.

I think this would be a better wording:
Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to lose life, put a something-other-than-charge counter on ~this~.
Remove a sotc counter from ~this~: Until end of turn, if a spell or ability an opponent controls would cause you to lose life, instead lose no life.

If it was from an ability, why wouldn't they kill the actual creature first? Seems to me it's better if this just prevents damage from opponent's sources, no matter what type of card they are.

[parallax]

I think this would be a better wording:
Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to lose life, put a something-other-than-charge counter on ~this~.
Remove a sotc counter from ~this~: Until end of turn, if a spell or ability an opponent controls would cause you to lose life, instead lose no life.

If it was from an ability, why wouldn't they kill the actual creature first? Seems to me it's better if this just prevents damage from opponent's sources, no matter what type of card they are.

Because you can't make a creature lose life. What source can make an opponent lose life that's not a spell or ability? I don't even think life loss has a "source", only damage does. I agree that this should probably work on damage rather than life loss, but if it stays life loss, then it needs the wording I gave.

[netherspirit]

Ah, OK, my bad, sorry.