Hopeful Initiate

White rarely gets a repeatable, maindeck answer to problem permanents stapled to an aggressive one-drop, and this is the design that threads it. The 1/2 body grows only when it charges into combat alongside a bigger attacker, so its counters accrue precisely when the board is already pressing. Those counters are not just stats: they double as fuel for a recurring Disenchant, spendable two at a time to break an artifact or enchantment. That dual purpose is where the card gets interesting, because the two halves compete for the same resource. Every pair of counters cashed to blow up a permanent comes off bodies you were trying to make lethal, forcing an ongoing read on whether this creature is a clock or a toolbox. What keeps the piece coherent is that both modes want the identical board: a wide, aggressive team keeps the training trigger live and keeps refilling the counters the activation drains. The payoff is a beatdown creature that carries its own interaction, folding a dedicated answer into a body that still threatens damage. The keyword itself answers an old white puzzle: how to reward a cheap creature for surviving into the midgame without simply printing a fatter one-drop. Gating the growth behind attacking with something stronger is the elegant fix, and this card layers a resource sink on top of it that turns surplus power into removal.