Memorial Team Leader

Red anthems have always sat awkwardly on the curve: the buff wants a board, but a four-mana body committed into an empty battlefield is a wasted turn, and the pump does nothing until you have creatures to point it at. The warp cost breaks the card out of that bind by letting it exist as two different plays rather than one. Cast it cheaply and it pumps whatever attackers you already have for a single turn before exiling; redeploy the full 4/3 later, once your board has widened enough for the anthem to actually matter. You spend the card in halves, choosing each time whether the +1/+0 is worth more now or the body is worth more later. The buff's restrictions do real work in both modes. Limiting it to your turn keeps it tied to the attack step instead of inflating blockers, and excluding the Team Leader itself means the anthem scales with a go-wide plan without swelling into a must-kill threat on its own. Static anthems are set-and-forget: you land one and stop thinking about it. The warp cost turns a passive buff into a two-part sequencing problem, an on-curve tempo spike now and a delayed permanent threat waiting in exile for later.