Loxodon Partisan
Battle cry is a keyword built for the swarm, which is exactly the friction this card runs into: at five mana for a 3/4, it is a body too slow and too solitary for the go-wide aggression its ability rewards. The anthem effect only fires when this attacks, and it pumps every other attacker, so a board with one creature on it gets nothing. The math wants a wide, cheap battlefield to convert each +1/+0 into real damage, but the cost of fielding this elephant cuts into the tempo a battle cry deck depends on. That mismatch is the whole story of the card: the keyword is correct for a particular kind of white aggression, and this is the wrong rate to deliver it. Other battle cry creatures arrived cheaper and meaner precisely because the ability's value scales with how early and how often it attacks, not with the toughness of the creature carrying it. A 3/4 survives a few combats and blocks reasonably, but defensive stats are wasted on an ability that does nothing on defense. What you have is a clean illustration of a design that names the right archetype and then prices itself out of it.


