Kinsbaile Borderguard

A Kithkin payoff that gets paid twice for the same board: once on the way in, sized by the small folk already standing beside it, and again on the way out, refunding that investment as a swarm of bodies. The symmetry is the whole point. It arrives as the capstone of a tribal curve, scaling with the width you have already committed, and its death does not punish you for committing: every counter it absorbed comes back as a 1/1, so killing it into a deployed board simply trades a stack of stats for an equivalent stack of tokens. That makes it awkward to remove cleanly. Spot removal converts its counters into a fresh wave of bodies, and a sweeper that catches it does the same (the death trigger reads only the counters already on the Borderguard, so the rest of your team dying alongside it changes nothing about the yield). The honest answers are exile or a bounce that resets it to a 1/1, the only ways to deny both the counters and the tokens. As tribal design it sits at the intersection of go-wide and resilience, rewarding a flooded board not just with stats but with insurance against losing it. Its ceiling is dictated entirely by what is already in play; drop it onto nothing and it is a 1/1 for three with a death trigger that mints nothing, which is exactly the tension that keeps a creature this swingy from running away with a game.