Wandering Musicians

The 2/5 body is the design decision that matters here. Most go-wide anthem creatures are small and fragile, priced to trade and lost the moment they turn sideways; this one inverts the convention by hanging its team-wide pump on an attack trigger while giving it the toughness of a wall. Five toughness means it survives the swing it needs to make: it attacks into most early boards without dying, and the +1/+0 lands on everything you have committed, itself included, so even alone it comes across as a 3/5. The tradeoff is real, though, and worth stating plainly: with no vigilance, the turn it attacks is a turn it cannot also block. It commits fully to offense or sits back on defense, never both in the same cycle. That is the honest cost of a five-toughness attacker that would rather not be one. The hybrid pip keeps it playable in a red-white aggressive shell without demanding both colors on curve. The anthem itself is nonselective and momentary, a full-team swing the turn it attacks rather than a static lord bonus, so it rewards flooding the board before the swing rather than drip-feeding threats after. What it does not bring is evasion or reach of its own, which keeps the 2/5 frame from overreaching: its ceiling is contingent on the board already standing beside it, since one modest attacker pumping only itself is a long way from the alpha strike the trigger is built to enable.