Indebted Samurai

Most of the Samurai roll-call rewards you for keeping bodies on the board; this one quietly rewards you for losing them. Each Samurai that dies offers a permanent +1/+1 counter, so a board that's trading down in combat funnels its losses into a single growing threat. That's an aristocrats-shaped impulse grafted onto a tribe built around honorable one-on-one combat, and the two halves don't always pull in the same direction: bushido wants this creature in the front of a block to swing the math, but the counters reward attrition the bushido-blocker is trying to avoid. The counter is also where the value actually accumulates, since the bushido boost evaporates at end of turn while the death-triggered counters stay. The catch is that "may" leaves the trigger optional and the whole engine depends on a Samurai-dense board it can't generate itself, so the payoff scales entirely with how committed the surrounding cards are to the tribe. A 2/3 body that grows by feeding on its own kind is a clean piece of tribal design from an era when creature types were still finding their mechanical footing, even if it never anchored a deck on its own.