The new Alice, Accidentally Adrift has an ability that can reduce the Strength of one opposing Character by 2 upon questing and this can be definitely reduce the risk for your Characters to be banished
The Divine Convocation March of the Machine Commander Deck set includes 1 ready-to-play Blue-Red-White deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary cards, 98 nonfoil cards), 10 Planechase cards, 1 six-sided planar die, a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack (contains 1 Traditional Foil or nonfoil special treatment card of rarity Rare or higher and 1 Traditional Foil special treatment Common or Uncommon card), 1 Foil-Etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the cards border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card
6 Graf Rats + Midnight Scavengers = Chittering Host By combining Graf Rats and Midnight Scavengers you get the fearsome Chittering Host
The exact details and contents are lost from my memory, and so are most of the cards I opened
You can have a triggered ability that contains a replacement effect, like in Scute Swarms case
You can also play into an aristocrats strategy, where you sacrifice your own creatures for your benefit, using your Humans as a resource to drain your opponents' life totals without even going to the combat step
