The Best Sword & Shield Cards Are Competitively Viable & Valuable Though most VMAXs can wreak havoc when active, the best Sword and Shield TCG cards are those that are both viable and valuable
Getting a relevant enchantment left behind when you wipe the board feels great, and this spell should see play in a wide number of decks, from Aristocrats to Enchantress
9 Logic Knot All Twisted Up A counterspell that scales with you depending on your needs, Logic Knot is a two mana spell with X in the casting cost, which is where you can use delve to help pay for the cost
Crystalline Crawler: color rock
If you're impatient, you can also counter-removal cards like Aether Snap to remove them completely, or counter-moving cards like Tidus, Yuna's Guardian or Nesting Grounds to manipulate them to make it your opponent's problem
I love that there are no board wipes for Locations, or ways to passively deal with them, so even a low willpower location like The Bayou represents a threat in both passive Lore and hand improvement