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Giving your creature indestructible can be a lifesaver if you need other stax pieces (I am assuming if you play Boromir, Warden of the Tower , you are playing a stax deck) to stay alive, or if you just want to beat down someone and survive a board wipe

Most of the time its used versus decks with x/1 creatures: Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Dragons Rage Channeler, Esper Sentinel, mana dorks, a Dwarf token, Inkmoth Nexus, etc

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Part of adapting to Play Boosters included making less unusable commons in Draft, which made the fifteenth card less necessary

At the most basic level, it can be a pseudo-protection spell by switching auras and equipment away from a creature thats about to die and suiting up something else