Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
The wedge-shaded Anafenza, the Foremost, was a three-mana, three-color anchor that buffed the whole board and shut off opposing graveyard recursion. This mono-white version trades that breadth for a single repeatable trigger on a cheaper frame. Bolster 1 on every nontoken creature that follows means the counter lands where you point it, and the counter's mechanic points you toward the fragile: bolster asks you to choose a creature with the least toughness (ties are your call among them), so the natural play is to grow the one-toughness dork, the freshly cast hatebear, the body that wants to trade up rather than down. Bolster does not target, which is why hexproof and shroud never enter the conversation; it selects and places a counter without ever putting the creature on the stack as an object. The nontoken clause is what pays for the engine: she rewards a deck built out of individual creature spells, not one that floods the board with copies, steering her toward the older school of white-weenie aggression rather than a token-swarm shell. The payoff is compounding math. One trigger is a single +1/+1 counter; six creatures across a few turns is a board grown six counters deep, distributed exactly where they matter most, while the opponent was busy answering threats one at a time. She is an engine wearing a two-drop's clothes, and the engine runs on the cheapest plan in the game: keep casting creatures.
