Mental Block (Blue)

You can only activate this ability if it’s in your hand. You can’t discard this to pay the cost if it’s not in your hand.

This is a shielding-prevention effect that prevents the next 2 damage in total that would be dealt to your hero. This can be over separate events of damage (i.e. 1 damage, then 1 damage).

If you prevent 1 or more damage, you meet the condition to create a Ponder token.

You only create a Ponder the first time you prevent damage. If you prevent two events of 1 damage, you still only create 1 Ponder token.

If the damage cannot be prevented, the prevention effect fails and you do not generate a Ponder token. In this scenario, the next time you prevent damage with this prevention effect, it will be considered the first time you prevent damage with this prevention effect and you will create the Ponder token.

Discarding this card to its ability counts as activating an instant ability, not playing a block card.