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Not a common?
Huh; my instinct for this is uncommon - but the history of magic suggests Samite abilities are either common or rare. Who knew?
The thing is "history" is full of mistakes that you are supposed to learn from - you might have heard about those who don't being "doomed to repeat" those mistakes.
In this case your instingt may be right: Repeatable instant-speed damage prevention and similar effects at common are problematic. The common Samite Healer from "history" has become Abuna Acolyte at uncommon. (Note: This doesn't affect the more simple versions that only prevent damage to players e. g. Reinforced Bulwark.)
Even in "history" the fact that this prevents all damage rather than just 1 or 2 points of damage would cause a rarity upgrade for this.
I could see arguments being made for rare based on the fact that this is an outstanding blocker and the power of 2 helps better to exploit using the ability to protect itself than e. g. a 1/1 body would. Also invalidating all damage from someone whose deck relies entirely on combat damage to deal with planeswalkers is a point in favor of rare. That would be different if it affected only one source of damage.