Nagao, Bound by Honor
Bushido is a defensive keyword wearing aggressive clothing: a creature only gets its bonus when it blocks or becomes blocked, and an attacking Samurai cannot force the opponent to block it, so the boost that supposedly rewards combat depends entirely on the defender's choices. A tribe built on that keyword fights at someone else's discretion. The attack trigger here cuts through that problem. Whenever Nagao swings, every Samurai you control gets buffed on declaration of attackers, before blocks are even assigned. That timing is the whole point: it pushes the team across proactively rather than waiting on a defender to consent to combat, which is the lever a Bushido army needed to function as an offense instead of a counterpunch. The Bushido on Nagao's own body still works the old reactive way, so the card is honest about its tribe's nature even as it rewrites the plan around it. The modest 3/3 body matters less than its company; the value lives in how many Samurai are standing next to it when it attacks. This is the early-era tribal lord in its purest form, a creature whose stats are a delivery system for an anthem, and whose ceiling scales with the count of bodies it can muster rather than anything it does alone.
