Relief Captain

Support is the keyword that lets one creature buff a board without ever touching itself, and this is the cleanest expression of it: a body that walks in and hands +1/+1 counters to three of its teammates, leaving its own 3/2 frame untouched. That distribution is the whole strategic axis. Where most anthem effects are temporary or pinned to a fragile enchantment, these counters are permanent and spread across the team, so they survive the captain's own death and outlast spot removal that would otherwise erase a single lord's static bonus. The cost is the obvious tension: four mana buys a 3/2 that does nothing for its own stats, a poor rate in a vacuum and a strong one the moment three smaller bodies are already on the table waiting to grow. It rewards a board that exists rather than building one, which makes it a curve-topper for go-wide strategies rather than the engine that gets them there. The counters also feed anything that cares about creatures being modified or carrying +1/+1 counters, turning a single enters-the-battlefield trigger into a synergy enabler. The math is plain and front-loaded: three counters distributed the instant it resolves is six points of stats handed out at once, and unlike a combat trick, none of it expires at end of turn.