Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay
This was one of those cards that a lot of decks were on the edge of playing, either because they couldn't quite get threshold reliably or they didn't want to splash one of the colors, inviting them to play a high-risk but high-reward game with their mana bases that both cost them games and won them games they had little right to win
#29: Valiant Wars This gleaming, royal card back comes from Valiant Wars , an incredible press-your-luck deckbuilder that plays like a high-stakes game of Blackjack
If a card with a shield counter on it would be damaged or destroyed by an effect, then the shield counter is removed instead
The tremendous flexibility of this card to take out whatever is posing a problem for you is invaluable, and there is little doubt many will take advantage of it, but this isn't quite the card its predecessors were