Aurora, Dreaming Guardian Protect your characters from being banished Sleeping Beautys princess is the ultimate support card in The First Chapter, coming in strong with the power to grant Ward to all of your other characters on the field
So, pick your decks carefully
As part of the Making Magic (2003-2005) article series on the game's official site, Mark Rosewater described each color in depth (as well as multicolor cards, artifact or colorless cards, and color-hybrid cards)
Ward is a strong ability to have on your side, so the fact that you can grant this aid to all your characters is undervalued
And why would that term have such staying power that 30 years later designers go out of their way to reinforce the connection between 2/2s and bears even as the context around them has been drastically redefined by power creep
So why would there have been an uptick in bird-based decks