Creakwood Liege

Most lords pump a single creature type; this one keys off color instead, handing +1/+1 to every other black creature and every other green creature you control. That distinction is what makes the double anthem worth chasing: a board that splits across both colors collects the bonus twice on anything that is both black and green, and the card pays its own way toward that goal. Each upkeep manufactures a 1/1 black-and-green Worm token, which solves the structural problem that haunts any creature that only buffs others: with an empty board, a lord is dead weight. Here the Worm arrives already wearing both static bonuses, entering as a 3/3 rather than the printed 1/1, so the engine bootstraps itself a body at a time. The cost is the governor on all of it. Paying for the 2/2 with any mix of black and green means three colored pips that never demand both colors at once, so a mono-black or mono-green deck can field it as readily as a Golgari one. But the double anthem only pays off if you actually assemble the two-color board it wants. Color-matters lords stay rare precisely because color is the broadest category a lord can name; the flexible cost lets the design splash anywhere while ensuring the full reward stays locked behind committing to both halves of its identity. The small body is the tell: the value lives in the static buffs and the slow drip of pre-pumped Worms, not in what swings on turn four.