Witness Protection (SNC)

Witness Protection
Casting Cost: {U}
Card Type: Enchantment - Aura
Card Text:
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)
Artist: Dominik Mayer

Card Strengths and Weaknesses:

• Strengths:
  • Can neutralize powerful creatures with detrimental abilities.
  • Extremely low casting cost.
  • Can turn enemy win conditions into harmless 1/1 creatures.
• Weaknesses:
  • Does not remove the creature from the battlefield, so it can still attack or block.
  • Vulnerable to enchantment removal.
  • May not work well against decks that utilize many 1/1 creatures or have ways to take advantage of them (e.g., sacrifice decks).

Deck Utility:

• Control Decks: Can be a one-of or sideboard card to neutralize powerful creatures.

• Tempo Decks: Cheap way to set back your opponent's board development.

• Sideboard: Particularly good against decks reliant on creatures with powerful abilities.

Interactions and Combos:

• Removal: Combines well with spells that need you to have a certain type of permanent on the battlefield. Transform an enemy creature and then remove it more easily.

• Stax Effects: In a deck that limits the opponent's resources, turning their powerful creature into a 1/1 can be more devastating.

Flavor and Lore:
The card’s flavor leans into a sort of magical witness protection program, converting a creature into a harmless "Legitimate Businessperson." The humorous note adds an extra layer of engagement to the card.

Overall Impression:
"Witness Protection" is a highly situational card that can be extremely powerful in the right circumstances. Its low mana cost and ability to turn dangerous threats into benign entities make it a potential sideboard card against decks that rely on specific, powerful creatures.