Brass Herald

Six generic mana buys a 2/2 Golem that performs three jobs on its way in: it names a creature type, digs four deep for that type, banks the hits, and anoints the whole tribe with +1/+1 for as long as it survives. That bundle tells you exactly what it was for. The reveal-four clause is a one-shot refuel that pays you for consistency: everything off-type goes to the bottom, so the deeper your build leans on a single name, the more bodies you sweep up. The anthem rides on the Golem itself, so killing the Herald drops the buff with it, which makes the fragile body carry more strategic weight than its stats let on. The sequence is the real constraint. You declare the type before the four cards turn face up, which rewards a deck already committed to one line rather than one hedging across several. Cast into a thin grip it does precisely what you wanted, pulling as many as four creatures at once; the only friction is the front-loaded cost, not the question of finding the right moment to play it. The deliberate colorlessness is the design point: Goblins, Elves, Soldiers, and Zombies could all reach for the same refuel and the same anthem without splashing for it. The rate plays slow against anything printed in the years since, but the intent stays legible: reward the player who picked one tribe and stayed there.