Rhox Pikemaster

A tribal lord that hands out a keyword instead of a stat bump, which is the rarer and more interesting lever. Most anthems give +1/+1, a buff that scales blandly with board size. First strike rewrites the math of combat itself: every Soldier in your line survives trades it would otherwise lose and wins fights against larger bodies on the attack. The Pikemaster doesn't make your tokens bigger; it makes them better at the one thing tokens are usually worst at, which is dying first. Drop it onto a swarm of 1/1 Soldiers and the whole board trades up, blocks profitably, and attacks into spots that would normally be suicide. The 3/3 first-striking body carries its own weight, so this isn't a do-nothing lord stranded without a tribe to pump. What checks the card is its narrowness: the granted keyword reaches only Soldiers, so outside a dedicated shell the Pikemaster is just a first-striking beater, a fine body whose lord clause finds nothing to touch. That focus is the point. It's a piece built for one archetype, where the gap between a stalled ground board and a winning one is exactly the keyword it confers.