Raksha Golden Cub

Equip the cat and the whole pride leaps a tier: not just a +2/+2 anthem but double strike across every Cat you control, which turns the equip step from a stat bump into a damage multiplier. The wrinkle is the conditional. The lord effect only switches on while Raksha itself is equipped, so the deck has to commit to an artifact it would not otherwise want, and a single Disenchant or a removal spell aimed at the cub collapses the entire team back to its printed numbers. That fragility is the price for an anthem that doubles a Cat army's damage output in one strike. Built as the marquee payoff for the Cat tribal subtheme of its era (a tribe that has waited a long time for critical mass), it sits in a lineage of equipment-dependent lords that ask you to bottleneck your power through a single permanent and accept the swing risk that comes with it. Even bare, the body carries vigilance, so the legend keeps blocking while it swings, but the card's reason to exist is the engine it lights up: a wide board of small Cats becoming a wide board of double-striking Cats the instant a sword finds its hand.