He can also protect himself pretty effectively, though at the cost of losing his counters
With Aurora, Dreaming Guardians ability Protective Embrace you have the ability for all your characters to hide behind it
And, with white giving access to recursion likeSun Titan orSevinnes Reclamation for cards with a low mana cost, you could bounce it back from the graveyard
Spellgyre is less efficient, but will still see play across formats, especially with that surveil text
Tarkir: Dragonstorm , gave us a whole wave of powerful dragons along with fresh payoffs and support cards that make building around them even more exciting
Any Characters that are placed on a Location card when it is banished, are placed back onto the table and lose any effects they received from the Location card