Alseid of Lifes Bounty Alseid of Life's Bounty wont attack often, but this kind of protective ability is vital in Commander since three players can remove your threats
As long as youre discarding cards or playing your cards as you draw them, youre safe from enemy creatures
The former could hit cards like Birthing Pod, Cryptic Command and Splinter Twin all of which were important, but the latter was better versus Burn and Zoo, and also back then manabases were a lot more painful as decks were more reliant on Shocklands, which meant a turn one Thoughtseize commonly saw you at 15 life from the get-go
Remember, it can be more than one of the same card
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Magic: The Gathering has been running for literal decades, and while reprints will always keep making harder-to-find cards a little easier to collect, there are some cards so rare that they become almost like urban legend