Burakos, Party Leader
The party mechanic mostly landed on cards that wanted an incidental bonus for going wide across classes, but this is the one that turned the count into an attacking engine and a partner-slot enabler at once. Party tallies distinct roles among your creatures (Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard), capped at four, and Burakos itself carries all four class types, so it plugs whatever gap your party has left open rather than forcing you to assemble a rigid four-of-a-kind lineup. On the attack, that count becomes both a life drain against the defending player and a Treasure haul for you, so combat generates ramp and fixing instead of just damage, and the Treasures feed back into casting whatever your party still needs. The Choose a Background clause is what lifts this above a niche party payoff: it opens a second command-zone slot, so the deck's actual identity is written by whichever mono-colored Background sits beside it. Burakos is mono-black, and Backgrounds are single-colored, so the ceiling is a two-color deck: black grind plus one splash's worth of a Background's theme, not a rainbow build. The 2/4 body is sized to survive combat and keep swinging rather than to close games fast, which suits an engine that wants to trigger every turn. What holds it together is the double lever: a commander that both feeds a class-count payoff and hands the builder a tool to shape the color pair around it.
