Valor in Akros

The reward sits one step removed from the obvious payoff. A go-wide enchantment usually wants you to keep creatures on the board; this one wants the entrance, not the residence. The pump fires when a creature arrives and expires at cleanup, which turns it into a tempo engine rather than a static anthem: every token spell, every flicker, every reanimation becomes a temporary team-wide buff that vanishes by your next draw step. That timing window is the whole design lever. A board-wide anthem rewards a wide board that already exists; this rewards the act of building one mid-combat, so it slots most naturally alongside effects that produce bodies after attackers are declared or in response to a block. The trigger counts creatures, not power, so a single token maker that drops several bodies at once stacks the pump several times in one cast, which is where the card stops being a marginal anthem and starts being a finisher. It rewards flooding the board in bursts rather than grinding out card advantage, and it punishes opponents who try to trade in combat, since the bonus can arrive after their blocks are locked in. The discipline is the cleanup-step expiry: nothing carries over, so the card never becomes a permanent threat the way a true anthem does, only a recurring spike you have to time.