The Falcon, Sam Wilson
The whole gambit is arithmetic on entry: one trigger that stamps a permanent buff onto every other creature you already command, scaling in lockstep with how many bodies preceded it to the table. That structure rewards a board that is already wide, so this wants to arrive late, after a swarm has assembled, rather than early into an empty field. The five-mana 3/3 flier is deliberately unremarkable; the evasion exists to let the anthem-carrier connect on its own, not to menace anyone by itself. The difference between this and a static lord effect is permanence. Because it hands out physical counters rather than a floating team boost, the buff survives the card leaving play, and the counters linger to feed proliferate and other counter-matters payoffs. That permanence is also the constraint. The effect fires once, on entry, so it does nothing for creatures cast afterward and offers no repeatable engine: a lever you pull at the single moment your board is largest, not a machine you leave running. Resolve it into an empty battlefield and the trigger still fires, buffing nothing, leaving you holding a 3/3 flier and a receipt for a synergy you never assembled. Cast it wide and it converts a stalled position into a permanently larger army in a single stroke.
