Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"
The anthem-on-a-body archetype, drawn from a strategist who never lifts a blade. Glorious Anthem fixed the static +1/+1 onto a noncreature permanent that the opponent cannot easily answer; this hangs the same wide buff on a legendary creature that, crucially, does not pump itself, staying a fragile 2/2 while the rest of the team grows. That self-exclusion is the lever the whole design turns on. A token swarm or a stack of one-drops gains real reach, but the source of the boost is a body small enough that targeted removal or a single chump-and-trade leaves you with a deflated board and no anthem. The trade against the enchantment version is the point: you pay more mana and accept a killable source in exchange for a blocker, an attacker, and a creature that can carry equipment or trigger your go-wide synergies on its own. Most white go-wide payoffs in the years since have either armored themselves with a larger frame or hidden the effect on something harder to kill; the appeal here is the inverse, a buff whose source the opponent is happy to point removal at. The legendary tag adds the usual tax against a redundant second copy. The flavor lands the design squarely: the advisor who wins battles by making everyone around him better, contributing nothing to the front line himself, vulnerable the moment he is found.
