Press into Service

A Threaten effect welded onto a board-building one, and the staple-and-borrow combination is the whole logic of the card. Red's borrow-a-creature spells have always lived on a knife's edge of tempo: you steal a body, swing, and hand it back weaker than you found it, having spent a card to do so. Support 2 pays down that deficit, but the counters only stick if you place them where they will survive the turn. Drop them on your own creatures and you walk away with a permanently larger board; spend one on the creature you are about to commandeer and then sacrifice it, and that counter vanishes with the body. The smart line is to leave the borrowed creature untouched, put both counters on your side, swing with the haste-granted thief, and feed it to a sacrifice outlet so the opponent loses it for good while your two pumped creatures remain. At five mana it is paying full retail for that flexibility, well above the rate of a clean Act of Treason, but the counters are the difference between a one-shot tempo swing and a play that leaves your own board larger afterward. It is a sorcery, so the theft happens on your turn into your combat step with no instant-speed ambush; the design is built for an aggressive deck that wants to commit to the board and pull a blocker out of the way in the same card, not for the surgical end-step steal.