Kithkin Greatheart

The buff lives in a tribe this kithkin does not belong to: control a Giant and the soldier snaps from a fragile 2/1 into a 3/2 first striker, but a deck full of small white creatures is the last place anyone goes looking for a heavyweight. That mismatch is the entire design conceit. It asks an aggressive white shell to splice in another color's top end, rewarding a bridge between two archetypes that otherwise share no overlap. The flavor casts kithkin and Giants as natural enemies, which makes the buff read less like an alliance and more like an opportunist falling in behind the biggest thing on the board. First strike is the part that earns its keep once the condition is met: a 3/2 first striker punishes blockers and trades up the curve in a way the base body never could, turning chump into genuine pressure. The conditional charges a steep price, though, because it only switches on after a much heavier creature has already resolved, so for the early turns this stays exactly what it looks like, a fragile two-drop hoping its expensive payoff arrives. As tribal-bridge design it points at a build wanting both an early soldier curve and a giant closer, and it functions only when both halves land together.