Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy

Battalion has always paid you for committing to the attack, but almost every version of the keyword just adds power to the board: a temporary pump, a token, a bump in stats when three creatures crash in together. This one turns that same trigger into a chain reaction. Draw a card off the swing, then look at what you drew (and everything else in hand) and drop a creature costing three or less directly into combat, already tapped and attacking. Because the ceiling is her current power, a 3/2 body is exactly enough to cheat in most of what a go-wide red-white deck wants to be playing anyway, and pumping her raises that ceiling. The wrinkle worth understanding is that a creature put onto the battlefield attacking this way was never declared as an attacker: it does not trigger its own battalion or "whenever this attacks" abilities, and since the trigger already requires three attackers to fire in the first place, the newcomer is pure combat math, not a way to retroactively satisfy other creatures' requirements. Everything hinges on surviving to the declare-attackers step with a board wide enough to trigger, then on the fresh body mattering the turn it lands: it cannot block, it cannot untap and hold up value, it exists to finish the race you already started. So this is a payoff for a deck already ahead rather than a way to claw back from behind, the honest cost of converting a combat keyword into a free deployment engine.