Heroic Sacrifice
Redirection effects usually stop at the moment the damage moves; this one keeps reading. The instant-speed shell that pulls all combat and burn onto a single creature you control is old white damage-prevention tech, familiar from cards that reroute an alpha strike into one defender or one blocker. What sets this apart is what happens on the far side of the redirect: the chosen creature is now a designated casualty, and the ability is built to cash in when it dies. Rather than treat the sacrifice as a loss, it hands you counter migration (any counters on the dying creature jump to a survivor) plus a card. That turns a defensive spell into a tempo-neutral engine piece: point a boardwide swing at your +1/+1-heavy creature, let it soak the damage and perish, then relocate the counters onto something better positioned and refill your hand. The window matters, too. Because it resolves at instant speed, you can hold it through the declare-blockers step and choose the redirect target only once the attack is committed, which is where the counter-transfer clause earns its keep. It rewards a board that is already investing in counters, and it punishes an opponent who assumed trading into your creatures was clean. As a piece of white design, it reframes the redirect: the point is not to survive the turn intact, but to survive it ahead.
