Hope Against Hope

An anthem stapled to a single creature, which is a stranger thing than it sounds. Most go-wide payoffs spread their bonus across the whole board; this one funnels the entire count into one target, scaling that creature by the size of your team rather than buffing the team itself. The arithmetic runs hot in any deck that floods the board: ten bodies turn the host into a one-card finisher. The count keys specifically off creatures the Aura's controller has, not the board it sits on, which is exactly why it belongs on your own team: the bonus reads from your side while the first-strike rider (gated on the host being a Human) turns your widest go-wide creature into a body that trades up in every block. Slotted into the white-aligned token shells that want this kind of payoff, it converts a wall of small bodies into a single threat that outclasses anything on the other side of combat. The catch is the one every Aura carries: committing a card and a turn to a creature that a single removal spell answers two-for-one, with the board investment that fed the bonus walking away alongside it. That fragility is the price of the ceiling, and it sorts the card cleanly: a blowout when the board is already wide and the opponent is tapped out, dead weight when you are behind with nothing to count.