Bess, Soul Nourisher
A single phrase does all the load-bearing work here: "base power and toughness 1/1." That is the exact printed statline of a Servo, a Soldier, a Citizen, a Cat, a Saproling, and most of the go-wide token catalog reaching back to the earliest 1/1-maker. The trigger reads only the printed base, so a token wearing a +1/+1 counter or standing under Glorious Anthem still counts as base 1/1 and still qualifies: you can stack anthems and pump on top of the swarm without any of your bodies falling out of the window. Each wave of small creatures deposits a permanent counter, and the attack trigger converts the counter total (not the number of attackers) into a battlefield-wide +X/+X, where X is exactly how many counters have accumulated. The counters are the memory; the attack is the payoff; the tokens are the fuel that grows the memory. What separates this scaling from an ordinary anthem lord is that it persists across turns rather than resetting each combat: a static lord hands the swarm a fixed number every attack, while a mature board ratchets X upward as long as small bodies keep entering. The damage still needs bodies to land on, but the size of the buff is a running tally, not a headcount: a green-white token payoff that compounds with the swarm instead of merely standing beside it.


