Ordruun Mentor

Mentor already tells one story about combat: reward the wide, aggressive board by fattening its smallest attacker. This one layers a second rider that reads in the opposite direction. The counter walks up the power ladder (it can only pump a creature with less power than the Mentor itself), but the first strike clause plays no favorites: any attacker aimed at that player can pick it up, from the token you just gave a counter to the fatty that will never qualify for Mentor's target. So the two triggers stack cleanly on a single swing. The counter makes a creature bigger; the first strike makes it survive the block it just picked. On a body that is fragile enough to die to almost any combat trick, the design leans hard into the alpha strike rather than the grind: this wants to attack with a crowd, funnel the buffs into one blocker-eater, and end the race before the return swing matters. It is a Boros aggro piece built around the arithmetic of a single decisive attack step, not a value engine that grinds turn over turn.