A-Silver-Fur Master

A Ninja lord that pays for itself twice over. The ninjutsu tribe has always run on tempo math: you swing with a cheap evasive body, pull it back before damage, and swap in something scarier at combat speed without ever paying the sorcery-speed tax that gates most large threats. This card taxes the tax. Knocking a generic mana off every ninjutsu activation turns already-efficient sneak-ins into cheaper ones, and it does so on a two-mana body that can itself be ninjutsu'd into play tapped and attacking for its hybrid cost. That hybrid clause matters at the activation level, not the casting one: the card wants both blue and black to cast, but any unblocked attacker you already have swinging can return itself to shortcut it onto the board. The +1/+1 anthem widens the payoff beyond Ninjas alone to include Rogues, stitching two adjacent evasion-and-tempo tribes into one board. The design tension is the one every anthem-that-also-cheats-in-threats has to resolve: it is a lord that wants to be attacking, but its own ninjutsu discount only fires when there is already an unblocked attacker to return, so the engine cannot start itself. It rewards a board that is already moving and then accelerates it, which is exactly the shape of a well-built tempo deck rather than a top-heavy one. Where earlier Ninja support asked you to assemble the pieces, this one makes the assembly cheaper every time you do it.