Umara Raptor

The growth engine for the blue half of the Ally tribe, built so the snowball compounds on its own arrival as much as on every reinforcement after. The self-inclusion is the whole point: the trigger reads "this creature or another Ally," so it banks a counter the instant it resolves, stepping up to a 2/2 flier before any backup shows up. That is the signature of this Ally template, the family this design belongs to: the payoff always counts itself among its triggers, which is why dropping this one onto an empty board still does something rather than waiting on the next body. From there, every Ally that follows pushes the clock higher. The airframe is the deliberate constraint that makes the counters worth chasing: flying gives accumulated stats somewhere to matter (evasion is exactly what a creature trying to grow into a finisher wants), but a base toughness of 1 keeps it fragile until it has fielded a counter or two, so it dies to nearly anything early while rewarding a board you can keep refueling. The bargain is the familiar one for sequencing-driven tribal payoffs: the rate on the card alone is unremarkable, and the value lives entirely in how many Allies you can chain behind it.