Fangren Firstborn

An anthem that triggers on the swing rather than from the static battlefield, which makes it a fundamentally different proposition from the lord-style pumpers it resembles. Glorious Anthem hands you its bonus the moment it resolves and keeps handing it back every turn; this one withholds everything until you commit to combat, then pays out per attacker and, crucially, in permanent counters. That permanence is what flips the math: a board that swings three turns running keeps stacking +1/+1s on the survivors, and any fresh creature joining the assault collects its own. The buff does not evaporate when the source dies. The body is the price of that engine: a 4/2 for four mana folds to almost any removal or blocker green players of the era cared about, and it only ever generates value as the aggressor, never holding the line. It has to attack into the same defenses it is trying to crack open. But the trigger is the attack itself, not combat damage, which softens the worst-case considerably. If a removal spell answers it during the declare-attackers step, the trigger still resolves independently and puts the counters on the rest of the team even after the source has left the battlefield. You lose the recurring payout, not the turn's payout. That distinction is the whole appeal: this rewards a board already built to crash in wide, where a single resolved attack leaves the defender's blocking math permanently behind even if the Firstborn never connects.