Desperate Charge

A team pump in black, which is the joke and the warning both. Mass +X/+0 effects have always lived in red and white because those are the colors that field enough bodies to make a battlefield-wide swing matter; handing the effect to black means the spell is only as good as the swarm it lands on, and black's traditional creature plan leans on quality and reanimation rather than going wide. The price buys a one-shot offensive burst with no toughness attached, which is the genuinely aggressive read: it does nothing on defense, adds nothing to survivability, and rewards a turn where you already have the board and want to convert it to lethal before the opponent stabilizes. That all-or-nothing posture is the design tension. The effect is reprint-grade filler from an older era of set design, when team pumps were the standard way to give an aggressive deck a finisher, and it reads as a black-aligned cousin to the white and red versions that were already doing this work. Worth understanding as a relic of how anthem-style alpha strikes used to be distributed across colors rather than as a card with a competitive story.