Sigarda, Champion of Light
Every prior bearer of the Sigarda name has been a hexproof-adjacent hatebear: protection from Human sacrifice, immunity to targeting, an Angel the opponent could not answer with a removal spell. This one abandons the defensive posture and becomes a tribal engine. The anthem for Humans is the tell; an Angel who leads a Human army rather than shielding it is a flavor inversion for the name, reorienting the card from disruption to aggression. The clever part is how the anthem and the Coven trigger coexist rather than interfere. Coven asks you to control three creatures with three distinct power values as the attack goes in, and a uniform +1/+1 preserves whatever spread you already have: a 1/1, a 2/2, and a 3/3 become a 2/2, a 3/3, and a 4/4, three separate powers intact. Duplicates do not shut the payoff off, they simply do not contribute a new value: a board of two 2/2s and one 3/3 has only two distinct powers, so Coven wants your creatures staggered, not merely numerous. When it comes together, swinging refills your hand with the very Humans the anthem scales, a card-advantage loop tethered to combat rather than a static value ticker. The 4/4 flying trample body applies pressure while the rest of the board develops beneath it, which keeps the reward honest: no combo to assemble, only the question of whether your power spread is wide enough to trigger the dig. The result is a lord that rewards breadth, unusual for a creature whose static ability is a flat tribal buff.
