Imperial Oath

White has long paid six mana to reset a board, and this pays the same freight to assemble one instead: three vigilant Samurai and a scry 3, a wall and a plan in the same breath. Vigilance gives the bodies double duty, swinging without dropping their guard, so the tokens read as an attacking commitment and a standing defense at once, useful for stabilizing as often as for closing. The statline is almost incidental in white squad-makers built along these lines: what matters is raw material, bodies for an anthem to lift, fuel for convoke, chaff for a sacrifice outlet, or numbers for a go-wide finish. The scry rider keeps the top-of-curve mana from feeling wasted when the tokens eventually get outclassed, smoothing the next few draws while the board holds the line. The rate is deliberately unglamorous, and the design owns that plainness rather than dressing it up: a resilient board and card filtering, purchased together at a cost even a control shell can absorb off a flooded draw.