Church Executioner

If Church Executioner would take damage in a combat, prevent that damage and put that many Fragile counters on it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all Fragile counters from Church Executioner. It then takes damage equal to the number of Fragile counters removed this way.

{t}: Whenever an ability, enchantment, artifact, instant, or sorcery would cause a player to gain or lose life, you may instead prevent it or double that amount.