Combat Professor

The trigger fires at the beginning of combat, before attackers are declared, which is the whole point: the +1/+0 and vigilance land on a creature while you still get to decide whether it attacks or stays home to block. Vigilance granted in this window is the real payload. Point the buff at an attacker and it swings for one more while remaining upright to guard against the crackback, so a single trigger does double duty rather than just padding a swing. The body is unremarkable, a modest flier built to survive into combat rather than dominate it, and the design leans entirely on repetition. One trigger a turn is small; ten triggers over a game is a slow inevitability that rewards a board wide enough to always have a worthwhile target. It reads like a teaching tool made literal, a professor drilling the same lesson every combat until the numbers add up. The vigilance clause is what keeps the aggression honest: strip it out and this is just a repeating pump, but with it the recurring decision is which creature most wants to both attack and defend on a given turn. That question changes with the board every combat, which is the closest a 2/3 with a small trigger gets to demanding attention.