Dauthi Warlord

A lord that scales off the keyword rather than the tribe, which is the design tell worth lingering on. Most tribal payoffs of this era counted creature types; this one counts the evasion mechanic itself, growing with every shadow body on the battlefield (yours or your opponent's, since the count is global). That choice ties its power directly to the same trait that makes it nearly unblockable, so the Warlord is at its largest in exactly the games where shadow creatures are flooding the board and getting through. The friction baked into the rate is the one-toughness frame: it can be the size of an army and still die to any point of damage, and because shadow restricts blocking to other shadow creatures, it offers nothing on defense against a normal ground assault. The Dauthi were Exodus's shadow tribe, a flock of evasive black soldiers built around an attack step that ordinary creatures simply cannot interact with, and the Warlord is their capstone: the card that turns a wide shadow board into a single oversized threat. It rewards committing to the keyword wholesale rather than splashing it, which is the cleanest expression of what shadow was trying to do as a mechanic.