Kavu Mauler

Six mana for a 4/4 puts the floor squarely in unremarkable territory: this is a build-around finisher, not a curve-topper, and it earns nothing until the rest of the board is already a Kavu swarm. The attack trigger keys its pump to how many other Kavu charge in alongside it, so the bonus scales with your commitment to the type rather than handing out a static lord buff. That's the tension worth naming. The ceiling only arrives once you've deployed a critical mass of attackers, which asks the whole deck to lean into the tribe before this card pays off. Trample is the load-bearing word. Without it, a single chump blocker would absorb the inflated body and turn a wide assault into a profitable trade. With it, the excess combat damage spills past the blocker to the defending player, so the swing that the attack trigger inflates is the swing that closes the game rather than just clearing a creature. It sits in a lineage of payoffs built around a coordinated alpha strike instead of an incremental anthem: the more bodies you can throw into the red zone at once, the larger this one grows, and the trample is what converts that math into a life total rather than a stalemate.