My collection is several thousand cards (small to some, decent to others), and not worth much in the end to anyone but me and other weird collectors like myself, so basic protection is fine
But if your opponent plonks one of these down, you're going to want to kill it off as soon as possible - you just know they'll have some way to give it trample
Heaven // Earth Flying creatures are bothersome when you dont have any on your side of the battlefield
Hopefully they fix it, for some reason I thought everything in this article was fixed but I guess not
If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed
I don't think it particularly matters who your commander is in Bant, you're going to have better cards in the deck to pair with specifically Selesnya Eulogist and more generally with Populate