Germination Practicum

Anthem effects usually cash out once: a single explosive turn where you pump the team, swing, and hope enough survives to matter. Paradigm rewrites that math. The first resolution puts two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, then exiles the spell and returns a free copy every turn thereafter, timed to your opening main phase. Because the counters are permanent and additive, the second cast grows the whole board again, the third stacks on top of that, and a table that survives one full turn cycle compounds into something nothing can trade with. What makes the mechanic dangerous here specifically is that the effect is global rather than single-target: every fresh token and every recruited body sitting on your side when the copy resolves gets fed automatically, no additional cards spent. The design tension is the five-mana front cost against a wide board that may not exist yet. Cast it into an empty table and it does nothing worth exiling for; cast it with a go-wide engine already online and the recurring copy converts a stalled ground into escalating lethal pressure. Being a Lesson matters to how the engine assembles: it can be fetched from outside the deck rather than drawn, so the loop is available on demand rather than hoped into. The counters do the killing; the recurring copy is what turns a good attack into a runaway one.