Kangee, Aerie Keeper

Bird tribal lords are vanishingly rare, and the few that exist tend to hand out a flat, predictable buff. This one instead scales its anthem to your investment: the kicker payment becomes a stockpile of feather counters that pump every other Bird, so a heavily kicked Kangee can swing the board far harder than a fixed +X/+X ever could. The design tension is that the counters live on Kangee itself, not on the team. Remove the Aerie Keeper and the entire anthem evaporates at once, which makes the kicker a high-variance bet: you pay a steep premium up front for an effect that one removal spell can erase. That fragility is the price for an open-ended ceiling, and it frames the whole card as a payoff for a tribe that has historically lacked enough bodies to feed it. As a 2/2 flier with kicker on a four-mana frame, the unkicked mode is a placeholder; the payoff arrives only when you have the mana to overpay and a flock already on the table to receive the bonus. It is a lord built backwards from the usual template: the more you commit, the bigger the swing and the further you have to fall.