Magic: The Gathering - 10 Most Powerful Mono-White Cards In 2020 Standard
6. Alseid Of Life's Bounty
The best decks have enablers. Enablers are not the cards that will do the damage that end the game but they will let the cards that can do what they were made to do and give you the victory. Alseid of Life's Bounty is an enabler in the life gain decks. One white mana for a 1/1 with lifelink once again seems firmly medium. It's in Alseid's ability that the true value lies.
If you pay one mana of any colour and sacrifice Alseid of Life's Bounty you may give any other creature on enchantment protection from any colour until the end of the current turn. Once this ability resolves the chosen creature cannot be targeted by, blocked by, or damaged by anything of your chosen colour. Opponent tries to remove your creature? Sacrifice Alseid. Is the board is stalled out and you can't sneak those last few points of damage through? Sacrifice Alseid.
With having to sacrifice it to use its ability Alseid is a one and done kind of card. If you find yourself in long drawn out game against a control opponent it may put you in a tough spot, then again anyone would be.