Gift of Strength

The reach grant is the part that earns this combat trick a second look, because it changes which combats the card is actually for. A flat +3/+3 pump spell is a fight-winner and an ambush at two mana, that part has been printed in green a hundred ways. Bolting the reach clause onto the same spell turns it into an answer to the one threat green struggles to interact with: the evasive flier crashing in for the kill. A ground creature that could never block suddenly trades with or eats the attacker that was supposed to fly over the stalled board, and it does so at instant speed, after attackers are declared and blocks become a surprise. That timing is the whole argument: the opponent commits the flier expecting a clean hit, and the spell rewrites the block step. As a pure pump, the rate is unremarkable and the +3/+3 line was never the selling point; the value is in the matchup it patches, giving a creature deck a reactive tool against the air it normally cedes. It is a narrow card by design, a green answer card wearing a pump-spell body, and it knows exactly which problem it was built to solve.