Hakoda, Selfless Commander
The whole card is built around a single decision the pilot never wants to face: the leader who protects the army has to die to do it. As a 3/5 with vigilance, the body is defensive by design, a wall that also attacks, and the top-of-library engine (peeking freely and casting Ally spells off the top) rewards a deck stacked with Allies rather than one loading its hand. That casting-from-the-top clause is the quiet workhorse, turning your library into a second hand for a specific creature type and papering over the card advantage a sacrifice payoff would otherwise cost you. The sacrifice ability itself is the flavor made mechanical: +0/+5 and indestructible to your whole board answers a wrath, an alpha strike into blockers, or a targeted removal spell, but only once, and only by trading away the engine that got you there. It is a combat trick that also survives Wrath of God, priced against the loss of Hakoda himself. The tension is real. Every turn Hakoda sits on the battlefield, he is generating advantage off the top; the moment you spend him, you are back to casting from hand and hoping the board you saved is enough. Designs that ask you to sacrifice your own value engine to protect the team are rare precisely because they invert the usual instinct to keep the good creature alive.
