Rally Maneuver

Two combat tricks welded into one instant, split across two bodies by a hard targeting rule: the second grant reads "up to one other target creature," so the aggressive half and the durable half can never land on the same creature. That restriction is the design. The +2/+0 with first strike makes an attacker trade up, resolving its damage before a blocker's ever lands; the +0/+2 with lifelink turns a second creature into an anchor that eats an attack and pays you back for it. Because the two halves must go to different creatures, the card rewards a board with several bodies already deployed rather than a single all-in swing, and it sizes both grants small on purpose: +2/+0 wins little fights, not big ones, and +0/+2 stabilizes rather than dominates. The second target being optional keeps the card live when you have only one creature worth pumping, so it never rots in hand. Where it earns its cost is the two-creature combat step where you are the attacking or defending player: one spell can save a blocker and push an attacker through in the same interaction, provided the beneficiaries are separate creatures. It is a wide-board instant, deliberately built so that spreading the effect is not a choice but the only way to cast the full spell.