Crusader of Odric
A board-count beater whose entire identity is the size of your battlefield: the more bodies you flood out, the bigger it swings, and it counts itself, so it is never a vanilla 0/0 the moment it lands. This is the named protégé of Odric, Master Tactician, and the design is built for the same go-wide white aggro plan: tokens, anthem effects, and a swarm of small creatures that suddenly has a finisher attached. The math is brutal in the right shell and embarrassing in the wrong one, which is the honest cost of a creature with no fixed floor. It dies to any of the small removal it invites, and unlike a static lord it gives nothing to its fellow attackers; the buff points only inward. What keeps it from being a worse Master of Etherium is color and breadth: it cares about creatures of every kind, not just artifacts, so a humble pile of Soldier tokens or sacrifice fodder lifts it just as well as a curated synergy deck. The card's pleasure is the swing turn where a token spell or a second wave of attackers doubles its size mid-combat, the body recalculating in real time as the board state shifts beneath it.
