Regal Imperiosaur

A 5/4 for three mana that also hands out an anthem is a stat line green rarely gets to keep clean, and the way it pays for itself is worth noticing: the buff reads "other Dinosaurs," so the body it pumps is never itself. With no tribe on the battlefield it is simply a beater with an aggressive rate, no better than the raw numbers suggest. The upside is entirely conditional on committing to a creature type, which is the tax that justifies printing that much power at that low a cost. This is the pattern green Dinosaur aggro has leaned on across its printings: bodies that are individually above curve and collectively snowball once the tribe is on the table. What separates this lord from earlier tribal anthems is that it does not ask you to trade board presence for the bonus; you get a genuine threat and the +1/+1 effect stapled together, so it never sits as a do-nothing enabler waiting for the deck to show up. The design bet is that the deckbuilding restriction (filling a curve with enough Dinosaurs to matter) is a real cost rather than a formality, and that a 5/4 hits hard enough to punish decks that ignore the anthem while staying fair against decks that answer it.