Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity
The elegance here is that the front face pays you regardless of what your board is doing, then chooses the reward based on how you play. Wide aggressive boards get card advantage; stalled or grindy ones get bodies. It is a self-solving tension: whichever axis you are short on, the enchantment tops it up on your end step, and either mode marches it toward transformation. Three invitation counters is the entire cost of the payoff, and because a counter lands every turn no matter what, the flip is not conditional on winning combats or hitting a threshold; it is a guaranteed three-turn timer that fires as long as the enchantment survives.
What makes the design sing is the shape of that payoff. The back face is a static anthem, and by the time it arrives you have already banked either the tokens it will pump or the cards you drew building your board. An engine that generates its own beneficiaries and then buffs them is rare in a three-mana permanent that never asks you to change how you were going to play. The counter mechanic does double duty (a resource you accrue and a clock ticking toward the flip), which is what stops the front half from reading as a strictly-better value enchantment: you pay in time, and the anthem is worth exactly the three turns it took to earn.
