Highland Berserker

The Ally subtheme was built on the entering-the-battlefield trigger: a feedback loop where each new body refreshes some collective bonus, and this one converts that loop into combat math. The trigger reads off any Ally you control coming down, then offers first strike to the whole team for the turn, so the value scales with how often you're deploying Allies rather than with the Berserker itself. That timing detail is what lifts it past being a marginal aggressive two-drop: first strike on a wide board flips the arithmetic of every attack and block, letting smaller Ally bodies trade up or punch through profitably during the turn you commit creatures. Because the trigger goes on the stack as an Ally enters, the decision typically lands in the main phase before combat is even declared, so the keyword is set and visible going into the attack step rather than something sprung later; the "may" exists to let you decline when the bonus does nothing, not to bluff. In the Ally lineage it sits among the support pieces, not the payoffs: it wants a critical mass of cheap Allies entering on curve, and contributes almost nothing in a deck that can't chain them. With a fragile 2/1 body and a bonus that evaporates at end of turn, the whole card hinges on tempo: deploy, trigger, swing. It is a clean expression of how that archetype was tuned to reward density over individual card quality.