Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran

Boros, the guild, took its combat thesis from this attack trigger before the modern "go wide, attack now" ethos had a name. The split pump is the entire point: red creatures swing harder, white creatures soak harder, and because the two bonuses are checked independently, a creature that happens to be both red and white (Agrus Kos himself, for one) collects both halves at once. The buff fires each time Agrus Kos attacks, so the payoff is tied to committing to the alpha strike rather than holding back. The precision of the color check dates it to an era when guild leaders were built to enforce a color pair's mechanical identity rather than to be powerful generalists: only specifically red and white attackers benefit, and a colorless body in the swing gets nothing from him. The 3/3 for five mana is a tax the design accepts on purpose. He is a payoff that wants a battlefield already assembled around his color pair, not a card that stabilizes a losing one. Later Boros commanders chased the same instinct with wider reach and lower cost, but few stated the guild's combat philosophy as bluntly as a leader whose entire contribution is "swing, and bring your whole color pair with you."