Expedition Raptor

Support was the keyword that tried to make group-buff effects feel proactive rather than incidental, distributing counters at the moment a creature arrived rather than asking you to assemble a wide board first. This is the flier built around that idea: the counters land on entry, the body brings evasion of its own, and the spread (up to two creatures) lets you bank the boost wherever it does the most work, whether that means turning two ground-stallers into real threats or pushing damage onto something already attacking. The five-mana cost and the modest 2/2 frame are what keep the package from running away with a game; you are paying a premium to scatter four power across the battlefield (two on the body, one each on a pair of teammates) and a flier to hold the line above them. The design tension is that the counters are durable but the creature delivering them is not, so the value survives the body's death, which inverts the logic of most token-and-anthem effects where the buff evaporates with its source. That permanence is the whole reason support reads as a counters mechanic rather than a temporary pump: a +1/+1 counter does not check whether its origin is still on the battlefield, and this card leans entirely on that. Lose the Raptor and you keep the counters; the only thing that leaves with it is the flying.