Parish-Blade Trainee

Most training bodies are one-way investments: pour attacks into a growing 1/2 and a chump block or a trade erases every counter you earned. This one refuses to let that work evaporate. The death trigger relocates the accumulated counters onto another creature you control, which reframes the card from a fragile lump of stats into a portable reservoir. That inverts how the training mechanic usually plays. Training rewards going wide and forward, so a small attacker grows only by swinging alongside something bigger; the risk is that the growth lives on a body the opponent is happy to trade with or block for free. Here the counters survive the trade, so the interaction rewards deliberate sacrifice: throw the trainee into an unfavorable block or feed it to a saccing effect, and its stored counters become a down payment on a bigger threat. The strategic axis shifts from "protect this creature" to "decide where its counters end up," a more interesting choice than most two-drops ask for. The body is modest and the work is modest, but the pairing is tidy: a counter-generating attack trigger and a counter-preserving death trigger answer each other's weaknesses instead of stapling two unrelated abilities to the same card. The growth clause fears removal; the death clause converts removal into relocation.