Acclaimed Contender

The conditional gate at the front is what turns this from a generic value creature into an archetype anchor: the trigger does nothing unless you already control another Knight, which means it can only reward a board you built on purpose. When it fires, the dig is unusually greedy for the color: five cards deep, with a filter that reaches from the tribe itself out into Auras, Equipment, and legendary artifacts. That breadth is the tell about the design intent. You can pull another body, but the reveal list is built so you rarely have to; the point is that it also fetches the swords, the enchantments, and the legendary artifacts that a tribal deck otherwise struggles to assemble reliably. A 3/3 body priced where it is means the creature pays for itself the moment it lands, and the card advantage rides on top. The friction is the whiff: dig five, reveal nothing, bottom them all in random order, and you got a beater with a dead trigger. That downside is the honest cost of the gate, and it enforces the deckbuilding discipline the card is asking for. Load enough qualifying targets and the reveal is close to guaranteed; skimp on them to chase raw power and the ability curdles. It sits in the lineage of tribal payoffs that dig broadly across the tribe's support suite rather than acting as a simple lord, a narrower and more demanding job that asks the deck to justify every slot.