Chronicle of Victory

Tribal anthems have always paid for their power by locking themselves to a keyword and a creature type: Coat of Arms scales bodies to the board's width, Vanquisher's Banner staples a card-draw rider onto a lord's body, and the usual pile of 2/2 lords hangs a static buff on something a single removal spell erases. This collapses that toolkit into one colorless object and charges six mana up front. What the price buys is the reason to look past it: the chosen type gets a full combat overhaul rather than a modest bump, with first strike and trample turning a wide board from a stall into a lethal swing, and the +2/+2 lifting everything above the reach of most sweepers and cheap point removal. The draw clause is what changes the archetype's arithmetic. Tribal decks live and die by keeping bodies on the table, so their engines historically punished the exact decks most vulnerable to a wrath; here the trigger fires on the cast, before anything can be countered or killed in response. A board wipe that answers your creatures still leaves you up cards for having cast the deck you were always going to cast. That decoupling of reward from survival is the tension the design resolves. And because the effect lives on an artifact rather than a lord in a color, the type you name is a deckbuilding decision, not a color-pie constraint.