Angelic Voices

A four-mana global anthem with a deckbuilding tax: you only get the +1/+1 if every creature you control is white or an artifact. That restriction is the whole design. White weenie was already the archetype the card spoke to, and the clause functioned as both a flavor gate (only the pure host receives the choir) and a structural one (no splashing a green fattie, no nonwhite, nonartifact token breaking the bonus). The cost is the tell, too: four mana for a static anthem with a conditional was steep then and is steeper now, because the design space for white anthems has since been compressed by Glorious Anthem at three and Honor of the Pure at two. What remains interesting is the artifact carve-out, which quietly anticipates a build where Soldier or Angel tokens share the battlefield with equipment-bearing constructs and Mishra-era artifact creatures without losing the pump. This is a relic from when designers were still negotiating how much conditionality a static global anthem could carry before its cost had to drop, and the answer the format eventually arrived at was: a lot less than this.