Parhelion Patrol

Mentor always leaned harder on its host body than any other keyword of its era, because a carrier's growth is contingent on committing it to the red zone every combat: to feed your smaller creatures, the bigger one has to swing. Vigilance is what breaks that bargain. This carrier can push a counter onto a lesser attacker on offense and still hold back to block, so mentor's forced-attack tax stops eating into your defense. Flying pulls its own weight twice over, keeping the 2/3 relevant as an evasive clock and letting it float counters onto the board even when the ground has gridlocked. The friction lives in the power line: mentor only targets an attacking creature with lesser power, so a 2-power host can only feed a 1- or 0-power creature, and that legal pool narrows further as those recipients grow past it. Value flows outward to the cheapest attackers, but strictly to them, and only while they stay under the patrol's power. That constraint is what keeps the package from snowballing: it is a growth engine pointed exclusively at the bottom of your curve. Clean go-wide support, built for a board of staggered attackers that wants its smallest bodies to outsize what removal was priced to answer.