Defend the Campus

The modal split here is doing quiet insurance work. Combat pumps and creature removal want opposite board states: the anthem line wants your side wide and their side clear, while the destroy line wants a fat threat across the table to point at. Bundling both onto one instant means the card is rarely stranded, since whatever you draw into, one half is live. The removal half comes with a power-4-or-greater gate, which is the restriction paying for the rate: it will not answer a two-drop or a chump blocker, only the finishers and midrange threats that have grown past your reach. That gate is also what keeps the anthem side honest as a pairing, because a +1/+1-to-all pump is precisely the effect that turns a stalled board into an alpha strike, and the destroy line covers the case where the opponent's board is too big to swing through profitably. It is a plain design, but a deliberate one: two answers to two different problems, priced at instant speed so you hold it up and let the game tell you which mode it needs. The cost is that neither half is a bargain in isolation; you are paying a premium for the flexibility rather than for either effect on its own.