Adaptive Automaton
Most lords are welded to one tribe and one color: Goblin Chieftain pumps Goblins from a red shell, Lord of Atlantis only ever wanted Merfolk. The trade here is that the type is chosen on entry rather than printed, which lets a single anthem effect serve any tribal deck regardless of its colors. That portability is the whole reason the body sits in colorless artifact space at a flat cost: a deck that already wants a +1/+1 lord can run this one without bending its mana, and the choose-on-entry clause lets the same card slot into Slivers, Soldiers, Zombies, or whatever the build happens to be. The construction also grants itself the chosen type, so it qualifies for the deck's other tribal payoffs while buffing only the rest of the team. The cost of all that flexibility is rate. A 2/2 that pumps everyone but itself is fragile, and an empty board leaves the anthem with nothing to point at, which keeps it a beat behind the dedicated mono-color lords that arrive a turn earlier and bring a relevant keyword along with the stats. It is the generalist's lord, built for the player who wants tribal payoff without committing the deck's colors to a specific creature type.
