Now for Wrath, Now for Ruin!
White has always paid a premium for team-wide anthem effects, and this one folds two payoffs into a single sorcery: a permanent +1/+1 counter on each body and vigilance for the turn, so a go-wide board can swing without leaving the ground undefended. The counters are the part that lingers, converting a one-shot pump into a lasting shift in board size, which rewards token strategies most: the small bodies that flood the mat become worth attacking with, and stay bigger after combat. Vigilance does the enabling work: it keeps the attackers from tapping when they commit to the red zone, so the alpha strike doubles as a defensive wall on the crackback, exactly the reassurance a wide, fragile army needs before it goes all-in. What separates this from the older stat-boost tradition is the Ring temptation stapled on. The card advances the ringbearer's ascension without spending a card slot on that job, so a deck chasing the emblem-style value gets it as a rider on an effect it already wanted to cast. That coupling is the real hook. The temptation is not a cost to weigh against the anthem; it is a second reward stacked on top, tuning the card toward decks built to accumulate Ring triggers rather than those that only want a Coat of Arms-style pump. It asks a go-wide deck to want two things at once, then hands both over for four mana.
