Arahbo, the First Fang
Cat tribal has spent most of its history split between two incompatible payoffs: the anthem lord that pumps a board it does not build, and the go-wide engine that makes bodies without rewarding them. This design fuses both into a single package. The +1/+1 to your other Cats is the lord half, and the token generator is the swarm half, but the clever part is how they feed each other: every nontoken Cat you play spawns a 1/1 that immediately inherits the anthem, and each of those triggers, since it comes from a Cat entering, keeps the count climbing. The nontoken restriction on the trigger draws the boundary that stops it from spiraling on its own; the tokens it makes cannot make more tokens, so the engine only runs as fast as you can put real Cats onto the battlefield. That restraint is deliberate, because it means the payoff scales with commitment rather than with a single loop, and it puts the deckbuilding weight back on the cards in hand. As a legendary Cat Avatar, it also sits in a lineage of tribal figureheads that Wizards has been sharpening across editions; earlier Cat leaders leaned on combat keywords or activated abilities, while this one asks nothing but that you keep playing to the type line. The 2/2 body stays small on purpose: it wants to hide behind the army it assembles, not lead the charge itself.
