Release the Dogs

Four bodies for four mana is the plain math, and by the going rate for white token-makers it lands a beat behind: the color has long produced comparable board presence at three mana or with a rider stapled on, from Raise the Alarm's flash to the various knight-and-soldier makers that leave something extra behind. What this delivers is unadorned width and nothing else, which makes it a builder's ingredient rather than a payoff. Four separate bodies means four separate handles: fodder for a sacrifice engine, four hits for an anthem, four attackers for a go-wide finisher, four blockers to buy a turn. The Dog typing is the only flavor flourish on an otherwise mechanical card, and it rarely matters. A common-rarity curve-filler for aggressive and tokens-matter shells, it does one legible thing, asks nothing in return, and lives or dies on whether the deck around it converts small white bodies into something larger. Unsupported, it is a modest four-power board; wired into a payoff, it is four triggers waiting to happen.