Light of the Legion

Mentor was the keyword built to make a wide, uneven attacking board snowball, and this 5/5 flier crowns that curve: it lifts a weaker attacker every combat while the Angel itself stays the biggest thing swinging. Because Mentor only reaches creatures with lesser power, it always grows the board beneath the Angel rather than the Angel itself, grinding the team upward one attacker at a time. The design wrinkle is the death trigger, which inverts the usual anthem-on-death logic. Most such effects ask you to protect the engine; this one pays out only when the engine dies, dropping a +1/+1 counter on every white creature you control at once, size irrelevant. That gives the card two payouts on two different axes, and they are not exclusive: the Angel can attack (banking a Mentor counter), then die later that same turn to a block, a removal spell, or a sacrifice outlet, and hand you the teamwide burst on top. That is what makes answering it feel like a losing proposition either way. Leave it alone and Mentor accretes value combat after combat; kill it or feed it to something and the whole white side spikes in a single trigger. The opponent's cleanest line, ignoring it while it swings, is the one that lets it keep compounding, and the line that removes it is the one that fills your board. A top-end finisher that wants a crowd beneath it and turns its own removal into your reward.