Day of Destiny

An anthem with a deliberately strange eligibility gate: it pumps only your legendary creatures, which in the era it first appeared meant a vanishingly small board. Legendary status was a brake, not a deckbuilding theme, so a tribal lord for legends read more as an aspirational design than a functional one when it landed. The cleverest wrinkle is buried in its own type line: it is itself a Legendary Enchantment, which at the time triggered the old legend rule, meaning two copies on the battlefield destroyed each other. That self-cannibalizing clause kept the anthem from stacking the way other lords could, capping the payoff at a single +2/+2 layer no matter how many you drew. What it represents is a snapshot of how the game treated the legendary supertype before that identity became a build-around: a counter the design rewarded you for collecting rather than a label every commander and saga now carries. The modern explosion of legendary creatures, where a board can field half a dozen named characters without trying, is exactly the world this card was waiting for and could not yet inhabit. It is a lord whose tribe finally exists.