United Front

Two spells folded into one payment: a token generator that scales with X, and a global pump that lands the instant the tokens exist. The sequencing is the whole design. Because the +1/+1 counters go on each creature you control after the new Allies resolve, every token you just made comes down as a 2/2, and every creature already on the board grows alongside them. Pay four for X of two and you have not made two 1/1s: you have made two 2/2s and upgraded your entire team in the same breath. That ordering is what elevates this above a plain token spell, which would leave you with a wide but fragile board. The counters do carry a cost, though: because they live on the bodies rather than on a standalone anthem permanent, a board wipe takes the bonus with the creatures, so the payoff is front-loaded rather than durable. The tension is the double-white cost against an X that wants to go large: the color commitment pins it to a dedicated white go-wide deck, and the payoff curve rewards casting it into an existing board rather than as an empty-battlefield opener. It is a finisher for a deck that has already committed to breadth, converting a modest board into a lethal one and giving the fresh recruits enough toughness to survive the first trade.