Mudbrawler Cohort

Two mana for a 1/1 with haste is a deliberately weak floor, and the conditional buff explains why the body sits where it does. The static +1/+1 turns this into a 2/2 the instant a second red creature shares the board, which in a creature-dense red deck is a condition already met rather than one to chase. That is the structural trick: instead of paying anthem tax up front for a lord that pumps the whole team, the bonus is folded into this creature's own cost and gated behind a board state the deck was already assembling. It is a lord that pumps only itself, and only once you have committed to going wide. The haste does more lifting than the size suggests: a turn-two attacker that lands two damage on arrival keeps the pressure honest while the rest of the curve develops, before the opponent has a blocker to spare. Note the asymmetry, though: the speed belongs to this body alone, so it is a one-time dividend on the turn it enters, not an engine that accelerates the creatures behind it. As a common, it asks almost nothing of a deck built to swarm with cheap red creatures, where the buff is close to always-on. Pull it out of that shell and the conditional goes dark, leaving a 1/1 paying full freight for a bonus it can never switch on.