Protection from everything protects you from damage coming from any source, even those that arent targeted, like Earthquake
That player then chooses which of those copies to cast, if any
(Far as I can tell, that may have been Mark Poole, who started numbering some early proofs but found the practice onerous and abandoned doing so for a number of years.) Numbering highlighted the true limited edition status of these cards, and most artists have followed suit
You can even find ways to increase Esper Sentinels power to make it harder to pay the tax and prevent you from drawing cards
Commanding Ziatora | Commander | Abe Sargent Commander (1) 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator Creatures (30) 1 Anger 1 Ball Lightning 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps 1 Blistering Firecat 1 Captivating Crew 1 Coercive Recruiter 1 Conquering Manticore 1 Duplicant 1 Eternal Witness 1 Farhaven Elf 1 Feldon of the Third Path 1 Flametongue Kavu 1 Forge Boss 1 God-Eternal Rhonas 1 Greater Tanuki 1 Groundbreaker 1 Grunn, the Lonely King 1 Impetuous Devils 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker 1 Krosan Tusker 1 Lightning Skelemental 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt 1 Professional Face-Breaker 1 Ravenous Chupacabra 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Shefet Monitor 1 Shriekmaw 1 Thunderblust 1 Viscera Seer 1 Zealous Conscripts Planeswalkers (2) 1 Angrath, the Flame-Chained 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter Instants (5) 1 Beast Within 1 Chaos Warp 1 Heroic Intervention 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire 1 Return of the Wildspeaker Sorceries (11) 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary 1 Cultivate 1 Cut of the Profits 1 Diregraf Rebirth 1 Ever After 1 Hunter's Prowess 1 Kodama's Reach 1 Living Death 1 Maelstrom Pulse 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass 1 Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins Enchantments (5) 1 Fiery Emancipation 1 Goblin Bombardment 1 Gratuitous Violence 1 Unnatural Growth 1 Warstorm Surge Artifacts (10) 1 Basilisk Collar 1 Blasting Station 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Lithoform Engine 1 Phyrexian Altar 1 Sol Ring 1 Strionic Resonator 1 Swiftfoot Boots 1 Whispersilk Cloak Lands (35) 5 Forest 5 Mountain 5 Swamp 1 Blood Crypt 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Cinder Glade 1 Command Tower 1 Forge of Heroes 1 High Market 1 Kessig Wolf Run 1 Opal Palace 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Savage Lands 1 Smoldering Marsh 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance 1 Stomping Ground 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 1 Tyrite Sanctum 1 Witch's Clinic 1 Volrath's Stronghold 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground And...there you go
