Timely Reinforcements

A pure asymmetry-punisher, and one tuned with surgical precision against a single deck archetype: the fast aggressive opener. Both halves are conditional, and both conditions tend to be true at the exact moment an aggressive deck is winning the race. You are behind on life because they have been swinging; you are behind on board because they emptied their hand into the table. Six life and three blockers in one card, for three mana, is a swing that can flip a lost game outright, and against an opponent who has overextended into a clock, it does the work of a board sweep and a lifegain spell at once. The catch is the conditionality cuts the other way: against a control deck, or in any spot where you are even or ahead, this does nothing at all, which is precisely the trade. The card's power is rationed to the matchups where you need it and switched off where you do not. That made it one of the cleaner answers to the perennial problem of pricing a hate card: rather than gate it behind a creature type or a spell type, the design gates it behind the game state itself, so it stays sharp against beatdown and inert everywhere else. It rewards being the deck under pressure, which is a rare thing to build around and a rarer thing to print at this efficiency.