Stalwarts of Osgiliath

The counter here is not a combat mechanic but a payoff for a deckbuilding constraint most white decks never bother meeting: drawing a second card each turn. White is historically the color least equipped to do that, which is the whole tension in the design. The body arrives as a plain 4/3 and grows only if you supply the card-draw scaffolding around it, so the card asks a mono-white or white-heavy deck to run cantrips, extra-draw effects, or a color paired to supply them. The Ring temptation on entry is a second, unrelated hook, gesturing at the wider mechanic without asking the creature to interact with its own counter growth. What makes the interplay finicky is the wording: the counter lands on your second draw each turn, so a card that draws two at once triggers it, while a draw step plus one extra draw does the same, but a single big draw spell only ever pays out once per turn regardless of how many cards it finds. That once-per-turn ceiling keeps the growth linear rather than explosive, which is the restriction that pays for the whole package being on a five-mana white creature at all.