Felidar Retreat
Two landfall payoffs live in one enchantment, and the choice between them per trigger is the whole appeal. Payoffs that spit out bodies are common; payoffs that pump the entire board are rarer; welding both into a single card and letting the pilot decide on each land is what gives this its range. Early lands become width, stamping out 2/2 Cat Beasts to establish a footprint. Later lands flip the switch: the anthem mode grows everything at once and hands the whole team vigilance for the turn, which lets the board you already built swing without leaving the crack-back open. That vigilance rider is the tell that this was designed as an offensive engine rather than a static anthem, converting a counter distribution into an alpha strike that keeps its blockers home. Crucially, this keys off lands entering rather than lands being played, so fetches, extra land drops, and any trickle of lands returned from graveyard or top of library all feed it more than once per turn. It rewards a deck already built to hit land drops for other reasons and quietly makes each drop matter twice. It answers the classic go-wide failure of running out of gas from both directions: the token half refills an empty board, the counter half makes a full one lethal, and every land that enters is a fresh decision about which of those two problems you have right now.

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