mtg terra herald of hope commander deck Terra, open) if (element.class Terra, Herald of Hope -

If all you want is to protect a permanent from a spell at the absolute lowest cost with the most reliability Turn Aside delivers

Waytas ability revolves around self-damaging triggers, doubling up on them, and allowing you to hurt your own creature to trigger their effects

Moreover if you do the math, drawing many cards gives you card advantage and access to all other aspects of your deck more quickly, so you have greater chance to have access to more lands, ramp, removal, utility, creatures, combo pieces, even more card draw and any other strategy you may run in your deck

Guul Draz Specter: after a board wipe, this would be an amazing play