Team Tactics

The teamwork mechanic reframes the tapped-creature cost as a payment you make with your own board rather than a card in hand, and this pump spell is a clean demonstration of the split. Cast it bare and you get a two-mana double strike trick, a fair combat effect that swings a race or ambushes a blocker. Pay the teamwork cost by tapping creatures totaling one power or more, and trample rides along, converting the double strike into a damage-forced-through profile that punishes chump blocks. The design tension is deliberate: the creatures you tap to unlock trample are creatures you are removing from the attack or the defense, so the upgrade costs board presence in the same turn it wants to close. That makes the decision a genuine one at instant speed, where you can hold the spell as combat information develops and choose how much of your board to spend based on what the opponent commits. Double strike plus trample is the classic finisher pairing, the combination that turns a mid-sized attacker into a lethal one; putting it behind an optional additional cost lets the same card be a modest trick early and a game-ender once you have bodies to spare. It is a small window into how teamwork tries to make wide boards pay for effects, using tapped power as a resource the way convoke uses it for mana.