Aven Brigadier
Two anthems on one body, but the trick is that they don't compete: Birds and Soldiers each get their own +1/+1, so a board that mixes fliers and footsoldiers swells on both axes under a single permanent. Most lords pick one tribe and stop; this one straddles the overlap between two pools, which is the whole reason it was built the way it is. The triple-white cost is the tell. is a price only a deck fully committed to one color can pay, marking this as a mono-white tribal payoff rather than anything you splash toward. The 3/5 body matters more than the modest power suggests: an anthem that dies the turn it arrives refunds its entire cost to the opponent, and five toughness lets it weather most of what a creature board throws back while it holds the air. The dual-tribe design solves a real shortage. Birds have rarely run deep, so welding them to Soldiers (one of white's most reliably supported types across the game's history) gives the card a floor in either direction, and a real ceiling when a board can field both. As top-end, it asks the manabase for full commitment and returns a buff that scales with exactly how committed you already were.
