Paragon of New Dawns

Each color in this batch of anthem creatures got a lord on the same 2/2 chassis: a static buff to its own color's other creatures and a repeatable tap ability handing one keyword to a single target each turn. White drew vigilance, which is the tell for how deliberately this cycle was color-cast. Vigilance is the keyword white cares about most, because white's board plan is the wide one where a +1/+1 anthem tilts every blocker trade and a threat that can attack without dropping its home defense keeps the alpha strike from leaving you exposed. The grant is the slower half of the card: paying a white and a tap each turn to keep one attacker upright is a grinding edge, better at protecting a swing than closing a game. The body is where the tax lives. A 2/2 that pumps every white creature except itself wants to be one of a crowd, not the crowd's centerpiece, and a lone copy with no board to buff is four mana that does nothing for its own stat line. That is the standing bargain of lord-style anthems: they demand you already have the board they reward. Across the five, the shape is identical and the keyword is the variable, and white's is the one whose grant sits most naturally inside the color's own combat identity.