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While Rhys the Redeemed helps build your forces with its first activated ability, youre mostly interested in the second ability that doubles your tokens

That said, it's worth noting that Guardian of Faith itself wont survive a board wipe

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In addition, we are concerned that the cost of dealing 1 damage via this effect is low and the ability to easily ignore offensive and defensive play causes more stress for players than expected, so we have decided to designate this card as a Banned Card

This card is a solid midrange creature removal that may not be enough against aggressive or massive creature decks

Now that the rose-tinted goggles are removed, I can see the merit of adding counterplay outside of traditional countermagic and hand disruption