Cemetery Reaper

The two halves answer the same question from opposite ends. The anthem rewards a board already wide with Zombies, scaling every token and dork by a point; the graveyard activation is what keeps the board wide in the first place, converting any creature card in any yard into a fresh 2/2 that the anthem immediately makes a 3/3. That activation does double duty as incidental graveyard hate: the exile clause means recursion decks and delve payoffs lose fuel every time the lord ticks, which is unusual for a tribal anthem whose job is normally just to pump. Most lords of this era were pure stat-boosters with a body attached, content to die to a removal spell and take their bonus with them. This one builds a backstop into the same card, so removing it costs the opponent a turn but does not stop the Zombies already minted. The tension it resolves is the classic tribal-anthem fragility: a deck that folds when its lord dies has invested too much in one target, and a lord that replaces creatures from the graveyard while it lives shifts that math. Because the activation carries no timing restriction, it works at instant speed, so the three-mana token can come down in response to a removal spell or at the end of an opponent's turn, banking value before the lord ever risks combat. It is a grind tool, not a combat trick, fit for a shell built to outlast rather than race.