Prized Amalgam is fair but unremarkable as a three-drop 3/3 creature, so its real appeal is the ability to return to the battlefield if another creature entered the battlefield from the player's graveyard
"Protection from each color" is shorthand for protection from white, from blue, from black, from red, and from green
Below is an excerpt from Marks article: To commemorate the opening of the DCI Tournament Center, Wizards was asked if they could design and draw (just as I designed both cards, Chris Rush illustrated both of them back then he was a full-time Wizards employee) a card called Shichifukujin Dragon
Magic The Gathering I was hesitant to put this one on the list at all because I could file a 500-page novel worth of complaints about it, its design, the company that runs it, and the endless stream of bullshit that makes this a game I have no desire to play at all
You add the personal details, and the design snaps into place