Knotvine Paladin

The attack trigger inverts the usual go-wide payoff. Most anthem and battle-cry effects pump every attacker you swing with, rewarding you for committing the whole board. This one rewards you for the bodies you leave untapped: each untapped creature feeds the buff, so the Paladin scales hardest when it charges in behind a row of mana dorks and blockers you never tapped out. That tension between attacking and standing back is the whole calculus. Vigilance is the loophole that breaks the symmetry: a vigilant creature does not tap when it attacks, so it can swing alongside the Paladin and still count toward the trigger, letting you press damage on two fronts without diluting the multiplier. The body is small enough that the trigger has to do the lifting, which makes the Paladin a finisher in a deck that floods the board but does not always want to alpha-strike: send the Knight, keep the rest as both insurance and fuel, and a 2/2 becomes a real clock. The design asks a question every combat (how much of my board can I afford not to attack with?) rather than handing you a flat number in the red zone. It is the rare go-wide piece that interrogates the wide part instead of assuming it.