Jacques le Vert
Naya in a single card, printed before Naya existed as a color identity. Legends was the set where Wizards first tried multicolor legendaries in earnest, and most of the cycle reads as a list of static auras stapled to a body: this one picks the lord template and quietly restricts it to a single color within its own three. The anthem only touches green creatures, not red or white ones, which is a strange piece of design discipline for a card that costs all three colors to cast. Read charitably, it is a Legends-era attempt at a green-aligned warchief who happens to need a red and a white ally to take the field; read mechanically, it is asking a three-color manabase to support a green-only payoff, with two of its colors contributing nothing but the casting cost. The toughness-only buff is the other tell of the era. Modern lords push power, because power closes games and toughness mostly survives Lightning Bolt; a +0/+2 anthem is a defensive stat line from a period when combat math was slower and ground stalls were the default end state. The card's real legacy is as a data point in the long arc of how Wizards learned to cost and template multicolor lords, a lineage that runs through Rhys the Redeemed and lands at the modern tribal commanders who give their chosen creature type something worth the mana you spent fixing for it.
