Lovisa Coldeyes

A lord effect built for a tribe that barely existed when it was printed. Barbarians, Warriors, and Berserkers were a scattered, mechanically incoherent grab-bag at the time, so the anthem here reads less like support for an existing deck and more like a designer wishing one into being. The grant is unusually aggressive for a creature-type lord: not just +2/+2, but haste across three creature types at once. That haste clause is what separates her from a standard static buff. Most anthems make the board you already control hit harder; this one also turns every qualifying creature you cast or draw afterward into an immediate attacker, so the effect keeps paying off on each subsequent topdeck rather than asking the new arrival to wait a turn. The tension is the body that carries it: five mana buys a fragile 3/3 with no protection and no evasion, so the whole plan stalls if she is answered before you have a board worth pumping. Over the years the supported types have filled in considerably, and what once felt like a tribe-of-one has accumulated enough Warriors and Berserkers to make the anthem mean something. The design is a bet placed years early on a creature-type axis that had not been printed out yet, which is a rarer kind of foresight than it sounds.