Hammer Dropper

Mentor rewards attacking with a curve of escalating creatures, and this Giant Soldier embodies the keyword's central tension more sharply than most of the cycle it came from. Five power for four mana hits hard but folds to almost any blocker, a frame engineered to be lethal in a race and a liability in a slog. That power is high enough that nearly every other attacker qualifies for the counter, which pushes the card toward leading a wide swarm rather than standing alone: the broader the team, the more reliably the trigger lands on a creature that survives combat. That is the bargain the design strikes, a glass-cannon body whose two toughness punishes you for stalling, tied to an ability that only pays out when you commit to the offense. Sequencing matters more than the stat line suggests, because the counter resolves at the declare-attackers step, before blocks, so you choose which smaller attacker to upgrade knowing the full board but not how the defender will assign its blocks. Built for aggressive Boros boards that flood early and want their creatures to grow across turns, it closes games by demanding you keep swinging rather than wait, the play pattern the keyword was written to encourage.