Supply Runners

Most anthem effects hand out their bonus statically and reclaim it the instant the source leaves the battlefield: a lord dies, the team shrinks. This one pays out in counters instead, so the buff detaches from the source the moment it lands. Kill this Dog after the trigger resolves and the counters stay put on whatever creatures were around to catch them. That permanence is the design's whole logic, and it comes with a plain cost: with no other creatures out, the trigger fires into a vacuum, and by the time you have spent five mana and built the wide board that makes the payout worthwhile, the extra counters read as consolidation more than a genuine swing. The counter distribution also behaves differently from a static lord in a deck that sacrifices and recurs its own creatures, since the bonus rides along independently of this body and stacks cleanly with any counter-matters payoff rather than colliding with a second anthem. What the counters do not buy is protection from a true board wipe: Wrath of God and its kin destroy creatures regardless of size, and only damage-based or -X/-X sweepers care that the team is a little bigger. This is a go-wide reward for a board already committed early, a single card that banks that commitment into stats which survive the source's removal.