Ronin Houndmaster

Haste and bushido pull in opposite directions, and this card lives in the friction between them. Haste says attack now, on the turn it arrives; bushido rewards the creature that blocks or gets blocked, a fundamentally defensive trigger that only pays out in combat the opponent chooses to enter. The Samurai mechanic was built for blocking math, the bonus that lets a 2/2 trade up into a 3/3 and ambush a careless attacker. Stapling haste onto that body is what reads as red rather than the white side of the tribe: it is impatient. So you swing immediately for two, then dare the block, where bushido turns a one-for-one into a fight the defender loses. The rate stays modest because the upside is conditional: you only collect the +1/+1 when combat actually happens, and a wary opponent who simply takes two damage denies the trigger entirely. That conditionality is exactly what the keyword was designed around, a reward gated behind the most uncertain phase of the turn. As an aggressive read on samurai design it states plainly what the tribe was for: small, efficient bodies that punish bad combat decisions, here handed the speed to start making those decisions on turn three.