Kobold Drill Sergeant

A lord with the power buff deliberately withheld: every other Kobold you control gets a single point of toughness and trample, an odd pair of riders until you remember what Kobolds are. Most of the tribe is a 0/1 body for zero mana, churned out by Kobolds of Kher Keep and joined by Crookshank Kobolds, Kobold Taskmaster, and other free or near-free 0/1s. On a board of zeroes, the +0/+1 is structural rather than offensive: it lifts those bodies out of one-damage range so a single ping or a small blocker stops trading with them, keeping the swarm intact while you assemble enough of it to matter. The trample is the long-game payoff: the buff alone never makes a 0-power or 1-power Kobold relevant in combat, but once you stack power onto the board through other means, the evasion is what converts an overwhelming total into face damage instead of letting it die to a wall of chump blocks. The whole tribe is a closed, self-referential system printed before Wizards had a vocabulary for tribal design, and this is the piece that converts width into durability and reach. It has no business existing outside its own ecosystem, which is exactly the appeal: one of the earliest creature types assembled as a complete kit, token engine and lord and evasion-granter all shipped in the same set.