Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

Most counter-doubling in Magic asks you to assemble a payload first, then find the multiplier: proliferate as glue, an Ozolith to bank the counters, a slow accretion you protect until it snowballs. This inverts that sequence by folding payload-generation into the combat step itself. The renown grant means every unblocked attacker earns its first counter the moment it connects with a player, and the first strike grant matters where renown does not need it: it lets your creatures resolve damage before a blocker can strike back, so a swing that would have traded instead survives to keep attacking on later turns. Renown only fires on damage to a player, so a blocked, non-trampling creature earns nothing that turn regardless. The doubling is a delayed engine, not a same-step burst. A creature becomes renowned only as its renown trigger resolves, which happens after combat damage is already dealt, and the doubling ability keys off a creature that is already renowned when it connects; it does not fire on the swing that made the creature renowned in the first place. The multiplier arrives on the next connection, and every hit thereafter compounds it. That two-step cadence is what keeps a per-creature, per-hit doubler from being lethal the first turn it attacks: the board has to survive a combat step, rebuild, and connect again before the numbers turn exponential. Everything still hinges on landing damage on a player, so a chump, a fog, or one well-aimed removal spell stalls the accrual. The design fuses the +1/+1 counters archetype with go-wide token aggression into a deck that wants to attack early, attack often, and keep the same creatures alive across turns.