Rasaad yn Bashir

The static ability is where the whole design pivots: combat damage stops caring about power and starts caring about toughness, which quietly rewrites how you read a board. A wall becomes a clock; a defensive stat line reads as an offensive one. Because that replacement applies to every creature you control, every point of toughness you stack is a point of damage, and it applies to the 0/3 body issuing the order too, so it swings for three of its own. The attack trigger is where the payoff spikes: declare an attack while you hold the initiative and every creature's toughness doubles for the turn, converting a battlefield of durable bodies into a massive swing without a single point of raw power. Note the timing precisely: the doubling keys off declaring the attack, not off connecting, so the buff is already live when blockers come down and combat tricks resolve, never contingent on damage landing. This is a design that rewards going wide with high-toughness creatures rather than conventional power-based aggression, and it pairs with anything that pumps defense across a team. It sits in a small family of cards that reverse a creature's combat math, and this is among the more aggressive takes on the idea, welding the reversal to the initiative mechanic it wants you racing for anyway. The Background slot then grafts a second identity onto that toughness engine, giving you a color and a payoff to build the rest of the plan around.