Introducing the Greater Morphling Card: the ultimate shapeshifter, ready to morph its way into your deck to stir up some serious magic
Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn
protection from the chosen players." So the wording might need a little massaging, but you wouldn't ever give it protection from yourself.
Ending the game is good, if people let you dither around with a dumb artifact that made you discard a bunch of cards with no guarantee it would not get blown up before you could pop it, the game needed some help ending
This is one of the advantages of the fact that Magic is owned by a huge multinational corporation
In a ramp shell, for example, you have the luxury of grabbing a Counterspell, removal spell, or big finisher depending on the matchup and situation