Veteran's Voice

Tapping the host is the price of admission here, and that single design choice is what separates the card from a generic pump effect. Each activation costs the enchanted creature a combat: you trade one body's attack or block to hand someone else a +2/+1, so the value only materializes on a board wide enough that giving up one attacker to oversize another is a favorable exchange. The "creature other than the creature tapped this way" clause is the structural fence that keeps it honest; the engine can never pump its own host, which means the buff always has to travel across a crowded battlefield to mean anything. Note the cost is written as "Tap enchanted creature," not the symbol: that wording sidesteps summoning sickness entirely, so a freshly enchanted creature can fire the turn the Aura resolves, the difference between a live engine and a dead permanent. It is built for go-wide red, a repeatable, mana-free way to punch a single blocker out of the way or win a damage race on the back of a crowded board, exactly the grindy creature-combat puzzle the era it came from leaned into. The catch is the usual Aura fragility: any removal aimed at the host strands the buff and costs you two cards for one, which is the tax the format charged for a one-mana repeatable effect.