Devoted Paladin
The entry trigger is the entire pitch: a five-mana 4/4 that pumps your team and hands everything vigilance the turn it lands, best cast when you already have a board wide enough for the anthem to matter. That gates the card cleanly. On an empty battlefield it is a 4/4 for five priced above rate, pumping only itself for the turn; behind a developed board it swings the damage math and lets attackers double as blockers, converting a race into a lockdown for a turn. This is a familiar white shape (the go-wide payoff that arrives late enough to reward the deck that built the board first), rendered as a one-shot rather than a static anthem, so the reward is a single decisive combat step rather than a persistent buff. The vigilance clause is the quieter half of the effect: it lets you commit to the attack without exposing yourself to a swing-back, which is what turns the temporary +1/+1 into a genuine tempo lever instead of just extra points on the offense. Built for the token and small-creature strategies where a fistful of bodies is the game plan, it does the least in a deck that would rather cast it as a topdeck.

