Strength of the Coalition

One casting decision splits this into two different cards. Pay just the green mana and you have a single-creature combat trick: a clean +2/+2 that slots into any green deck's mana and does its work mid-combat. Fold in the kicker and the same spell stops answering one block and starts finishing the game, hanging a lasting counter on every creature you control while the named target keeps its temporary boost stacked on top. The gate is the whole design. Green wants the cheap trick online early; the anthem effect wants a wide board and a white source, so the additional cost quietly sorts the card into whichever half of the game you are actually in. Turn three you flash it to win a block. Later, with mana to spare and white available, that same card turns a stalled ground into a lethal alpha strike, and the counters outlast the turn where the raw pump would have faded. Instant timing is what makes the kicked mode a threat rather than a value play: hold it up as a combat bluff, let an opponent commit to a block that looks safe, then blow the board open with counters that stick. What's elegant is the range: a single green mana and a single card scale from a one-creature answer to a full-team finisher without the text ever changing, only the price you choose to pay.