Nahiri's Resolve

The end-step blink is the whole engine here, and it does something most flicker payoffs skip: it batches. Where a card like Conjurer's Closet or Flickerwisp resets one permanent at a time, this exiles any number of your nontoken artifacts and creatures at once and returns them all on your next upkeep, so a board full of enters-the-battlefield triggers fires as a single volley every turn cycle. The haste it hands out is not incidental flavor; it is the payment structure. Anything you blink comes back on your upkeep with summoning sickness, and the anthem's haste clause means those returning bodies can attack the same turn they land, closing the gap the flicker would otherwise open. That pairing (a Nahiri-flavored red-white aggression buff welded to a repeatable value loop) is what places the card between two archetypes that rarely share a slot: the go-wide beatdown deck that wants +1/+0 and haste, and the value-blink deck that wants a recurring ETB engine. The tension is that the two halves pull in different directions, since the anthem rewards a flat wide board while the exile clause rewards a small number of high-impact triggers. What the card is actually built for is the deck that can do both at once: enough creatures to make the buff matter, enough of them worth blinking to make the end-step trigger a threat rather than a liability that leaves you tapped out at the wrong moment.