Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort

The transform clause writes a deckbuilding contract. A one-mana enchantment that drops a lifelinking body and then converts into a token engine is already a fair rate, but the flip only triggers when you attack with three or more creatures, which means it pays out fastest in the exact go-wide decks that least need the help and stalls in the grindy ones that would love a recurring token producer. That tension is the design. The front half is insurance (a creature and a little life), the back half is a manland-adjacent payoff that taps for a single mana and reloads the board for three mana a turn, but the bridge between them is a board you have to manufacture yourself. Weenie strategies had long been short on early plays that stay relevant into the late game, and this folds both jobs into a single one-drop: cast it first, and it never rots in hand, because even the unflipped side has already left a body behind. Adanto, the First Fort matters most as a token engine that does not eat a spell slot, resilient enough to survive the sweepers that punish a wide board and rebuild afterward from a permanent that lives in the land drop. The card rewards committing to the attack without demanding you commit up front, and that conditional structure (cheap now, engine later, but only once you swing wide) is a tidy piece of cost-curve design.