Summon Backup Dancers/Playing With

2W - Backup Dancers Creature - Human Dancers 1/3 Flash. Vigilance. Tap: Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn. Sacrifice this creature at the beginning of your next turn. Discard a card, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Basic Trope: Dancers appear out of nowhere to help with a musical number.
 * Straight: Clare is facing an armed squad blocking a bridge. Since this is a musical, she summons a group of dancers to help her dance fight against all of them.
 * Exaggerated: Clare summons so many dancers that they collapse the bridge with their combined weight.
 * Justified: Clare knew about the blockade, and used herself as a distraction so her friends can sneak up on the soldiers and further disorient them with dance synchronized fighting.
 * Inverted: Clare is walking to the bridge with her musical theater troupe, who run away in fear once they see the soldiers.
 * Subverted: Clare starts singing, dancing, and once she reaches the chorus... no one sings it. She's all alone.
 * Double Subverted: Because they were waiting for a Big Damn Heroes entrance, and after a beat swoop in singing.
 * Parodied: Clare takes out a bottle marked "Acme Dehydrated Dancers" and rehydrates them.
 * Deconstructed: There is an agency you can contract that trains ninja-dancers to follow you around, and sing and dance along side you at a moments notice.
 * No one sings. Ever, Not even humming alone, since doing so may cause an impromptu musical number at the most annoying time.
 * Reconstructed: The lead characters have to spend considerable time training alongside their backup dancers, or to literally summon them.
 * Zig Zagged: Clare makes angels appear to sing alongside her, except they were just a figment of her imagination, until they came to life! But it turns out it was a Dream Within a Dream, and Clare isn't even singing out loud.
 * Averted: Whenever someone sings and dances, they do so alone.
 * Enforced: It's a musical.
 * Lampshaded: "You know, I wonder where all those backup dancers go after a song is done? Do you think they just go for coffee or cash a check or something?"
 * Invoked: Clare organizes her friends and coworkers into a passable backup dancer group, and gives them Supermanlike spandex costumes to wear under their clothes so they can beat their rivals.
 * Defied: Clare shoos away the backup dancers so she can do a solo song.
 * Discussed: "You soldiers think you outnumber me? All I have to do is sing a few words and I'll have a platoon backing me up!"
 * Conversed: "If everyone on this show can make backup dancers appear when they sing, no matter where they are, how can they not feel like they're Being Watched all of the time?"

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