Giada, Font of Hope

Angel decks have long wanted two incompatible things at the same low price: acceleration to bridge toward their expensive fliers, and a payoff worth building the tribe around. A cheap creature that taps for white and buffs the team resolves both without collapsing into generic ramp, because the mana it produces can only pay for Angel spells. That constraint keeps the acceleration tribal by construction, so a two-drop that ramps never becomes Rampant Growth on a stick. The counter clause earns this a slot at the front of a deck rather than inside one: it scales quadratically rather than linearly, since each new Angel enters with a counter for every Angel already on the battlefield. The fifth Angel to arrive is meaningfully bigger than the second, so the incentive is to keep committing bodies, the reward compounding the deeper you go (and the punishment landing only when a sweeper resets the count). The 2/2 flying, vigilance body is modest on purpose; it is not asked to close games, only to persist and convert a scattered pile of costly fliers into a curve you can actually deploy. Tribal-mana-plus-anthem templates exist across other creature types, but folding acceleration and a scaling counter payoff together this tightly at such a low cost is rare. The design anchors a tribe rather than filling a role inside one.