Ornamental Courage

A combat trick that operates in two phases of the same turn. Most pump spells exist to win a single block or push a point of damage through; folding an untap into the package changes what green's cheap instant boosts have historically done, which is simply hand a creature a temporary stat bump. The untap is the load-bearing word. Cast it on an attacker and you keep that creature available to block on the crack-back; untap a creature you already tapped for a mana ability or an attack trigger and you get the body back the same turn. The +1/+3 spread is deliberately defense-weighted, three toughness to one power, so the card leans toward surviving combat rather than winning a race outright. Green has always had cheap, lopsided stat boosts; the wrinkle here is manufacturing a pseudo-vigilance window with a trick, swinging and still having the creature up afterward. The price of that flexibility is that the effect does almost nothing proactively: it needs a creature already on the board and a board state where untapping changes the math. That makes it a precision tool rather than a default include, a card for the player who wants one mana to answer the second combat as well as the first.