Burning Sun Cavalry

A conditional beater built to reward the one deckbuilding commitment that defines its tribe: keep a Dinosaur on the board and the 2/2 body swings and blocks as a 3/3, which is exactly the rate a two-drop wants when the aggressive curve is doing its job. The condition is the interesting part, not the payoff. Most tribal lords check for a creature type by static anthem, a state-based bonus that comes and goes with the creature it looks at; this one checks at the moment of combat, so the requirement is only the Dinosaur being present when you declare the attack or block. Once the trigger resolves, the +1/+1 sticks until end of turn regardless of what happens next: trade away the Dinosaur, sacrifice it, watch it get bounced, and the Knight is still a 3/3 through combat damage. That makes the timing a narrow gate rather than a fragile one, punishing only the deck that cannot reliably field a Dinosaur when it wants to attack. It is a Human Knight that only earns its keep in a Dinosaur shell, the kind of cross-tribal glue that binds two creature types into one archetype rather than letting each go its own way. Plain in isolation, sharper as a signpost for the direction the deck around it is supposed to go.