Morcant's Loyalist

Elf tribal has always kept two jobs in separate bodies: the anthem that scales the board and the recursion piece that refuses to let the deck run out of gas. Folding both into one three-drop is the trick here. The +1/+1 to your other Elves is the standing payoff for going wide, but it also loads the second half of the card. When this dies, it hands another Elf back from the graveyard, which reverses the usual math of a removal trade: spending a spell to kill it costs the opponent card advantage, because you replace the dead body with a fresh threat already sitting in your bin. That death trigger reframes how the creature wants to be used. It is not something you protect so much as something you are happy to spend, because dying advances the plan rather than ending it. The black-green pairing is what makes both halves fit: green owns the tribal go-wide anthem, black owns the graveyard as a resource, and stitching them together in a single Elf Warrior is the kind of design that only lands in a color pair willing to treat its own creatures as recyclable material. The 3/2 body is slim enough that most removal answers it, which is the point; the reward is built to fire, not to sit unused.