Valor Singer
A pump that comes to you rather than sitting in your hand: at the start of every combat, one creature you control gets +1/+0 for the turn, no card and no mana spent. That single-target framing is the design lever. A static anthem lifts everyone at once; this trigger picks exactly one attacker, which makes it a push tool for the creature that most needs to get through: the one facing a slightly bigger blocker, or the one carrying a keyword that turns a point of power into real damage (trample, double strike, or a saboteur trigger that only fires on a connection). The bump expires each turn and nothing compounds, but the same free push arrives every combat, and each turn you reassess which creature deserves it based on the board in front of you. It stays in a fair-tempo lane in one important way: the trigger is locked to your own combat, so it does nothing to shore up your defense when the opponent swings back. Think of it less as an anthem and more as a recurring, retargetable combat trick stapled to a 2/3 that can hold a block on its own. The body is intentionally modest; the card earns its slot by giving a creature-heavy deck a steady, no-cost edge in the attack step rather than by ever being the threat itself.

