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The Raid ability front-loads the reward: swing before this hits play and it arrives as a 6/5, but the more interesting engine is the attack trigger that spits out a 2/2 Soldier every combat, and those tokens each carry firebending 1. That keyword is a delayed mana ability, not a combat buff: when a firebending token attacks, it adds a red mana that survives until end of combat, so a widening board of these tokens quietly funds a mid-combat spell or a second wave of activations. The design here is a feedback loop dressed as an aggressive body. Each attack step generates a fresh attacker, and each new attacker becomes a future mana source, which means the card's value curve bends upward the longer it stays swinging rather than plateauing after it connects once. Raid rewards you for already being ahead on the board, and the token generation compounds that lead instead of merely extending it. Where most five-mana Rakdos beaters ask you to trade the body for immediate impact, this one asks you to keep attacking to unlock the mana it's been storing, turning combat itself into a resource ramp that most creatures of this size never touch.