Life Ward

You may pay 1 life and discard a creature card
from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana
cost.
If target creature card would enter play from a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
"It is absolutely necessary...that some of earth's dark,
dead corners...be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities
wake to resurgent life...and splash out of their black
lairs to newer and wider conquests." - H. P. Lovecraft