Rinoa, Angel Wing

The rare flying anthem that manufactures its own board rather than assuming one. Most fliers-matter payoffs sit dead in a stalled game with an empty air force; this one runs a recursion loop that keeps refilling the sky with the very creatures it then buffs. The combat trigger is only half the design. The other half turns your dying attackers into flying threats: an attacking creature that dies comes back tapped with a flying counter, meaning next turn it is airborne, and next turn it also collects the +1/+1 and vigilance the combat trigger hands out. The counter is doing the load-bearing work here, because it launders ground creatures into permanent fliers and then feeds them into the anthem, so an aggressive board that trades on the ground reassembles itself in the air. The "only once each turn" clause is the pressure valve that keeps this from being an infinite blink engine; each turn you may rebuild at most one attacker, so the loop grinds rather than explodes. On a 2/4 body the design reads as a support piece, and it is, but the interplay between the two abilities makes it something closer to an aggro engine: attack, trade, return a casualty as a flier, and swing again next turn with an anthem waiting. It rewards a wide, expendable board far more than a tall one, which is a subtler build requirement than the flying line suggests.