Warren Elder
The team-pump anthem has always come cheap on the front end and expensive on the back: a small body that asks nothing to cast, paired with a mana sink that only matters once the board is wide. Here the pump costs for a single turn of +1/+1 across the team, and that pricing does all the load-bearing work. The activation is deliberately steep for a two-mana creature, so this isn't a two-drop that snowballs on its own; it wants a battlefield full of small creatures already committed before the anthem does real work. Once that board exists, the sink turns flooded turns into damage, converting excess lands into a repeatable overrun that pushes through blockers or finishes a stalled race. The Rabbit Cleric line places it squarely in a go-wide, low-curve shell where every extra creature multiplies the return on each activation. The four-mana price per swing is the restraint the design leans on: you rarely get more than one activation in the turn you want it, so the payoff scales with how many bodies you've already deployed rather than with how much mana you can pour in. It is a support piece, not a threat, and it reads exactly as designed: cheap enough to play early, patient enough to reward a plan built around it.
