Scourge of Valkas

The payoff that makes Dragon tribal a real archetype rather than a pile of fliers. The damage trigger scales with board state and fires off every Dragon that lands, including itself: cast it into two Dragons already in play and its own enter-the-battlefield trigger deals three, then the next Dragon you resolve deals four, and the math compounds toward burning out a player's life total without ever attacking. That turns a tribe defined by clunky five-mana bodies into a removal engine that aims itself wherever it needs to go, sweeping small blockers or going straight at a face. The firebreathing line is the secondary mode, a mana sink for the turns when the trigger has already cleared the way and you just need to push the last points through the air. What distinguishes the design is that the reward is symmetrical with the tribe's natural curve: the more Dragons you commit, the harder each successive one hits, so the deck wants exactly what it was already trying to do (flood the board with expensive fliers) and converts that commitment into reach. The triple-red pip is the cost of that scaling, anchoring the card to a heavily red manabase and pricing it out of the splashier multicolor Dragon piles that would otherwise want it most.