Eiganjo Exemplar

The tension baked into every "attacks alone" reward is that it fights your own aggression: the wider you go, the less the card does. This one leans all the way into that, buffing whichever Samurai or Warrior charges into the red zone unaccompanied. That reads like a drawback on an aggressive two-drop, and it would be if the tribes it cared about wanted to flood the board. They do not. The Samurai design philosophy is built around the lone attacker: solo strikes trigger the flip-cards and combat rewards those decks stack up, so a single evasive threat carrying an extra point of power is exactly the sequence the archetype was engineered to produce. The buff applies to the Exemplar itself, so on an empty board it swings as a 3/2. What keeps it from being a pure combat trick on a stick is the enchantment half of the type line: it counts toward devotion, feeds enchantment-count triggers, and registers for constellation-style payoffs the moment it hits the battlefield, all while it quietly enforces the go-tall gameplan. It is a payoff and an enabler folded into one cheap body, built for a tribe whose whole combat math assumes you are sending one creature forward and betting everything on it.