Most Valuable Slayer

The trigger fires on the whole team but the buff lands on one creature, which is the tell for what this design is actually built to do: reward the wide board while quietly declaring one attacker the standout. First strike is the load-bearing half. A 2/4 body that hands out first strike every combat turns an ordinary aggressive board into one that wins damage races before the defender's blockers ever swing back, and it does the work on the go-wide creatures that would otherwise trade down into a single well-placed blocker. The +1/+0 rides along to push the chosen attacker past a specific toughness or into lethal, but the evasion-through-combat-math is the point. Because the choice happens each time you attack, the pilot gets to re-target based on the board in front of them: protect a fragile threat this turn, escalate a beater the next. It sits in the lineage of anthem-adjacent aggro payoffs that reward committing to the attack, closer in spirit to the single-target combat lords than to the flat team pumps, since concentrating first strike on one creature is often worth more than spreading a small buff across the whole line. A durable defensive back end (four toughness survives most of what it provokes) means it keeps handing out the buff long after a two-toughness lord would have been picked off.