Sneak is the entire pitch, and TMT prints 59 cards that care about it: this is the Ninjas payoff in a set explicitly designed around the mechanic. P1P2 to P1P4 in any base-black draft, the rate where a mono-color uncommon lord genuinely warps which seat you take. The band tightens rather than loosens, because Foot Ninjas and the hybrid black commons mean two or three drafters at the table stay open to it.
The lord clause matters less than it reads, and the archetypes split on exactly that point. WB Ninjas stacks small evasive bodies that recur the Sneak line and actually cashes the +1/+1 across a board. BG Food/Sacrifice cares about none of that: it wants a discounted menace threat that happens to buff the occasional rat token, nothing more. UR Tempo splashes on the strength of Escape Tunnel and the utility-land fixing, taking him strictly as a two-mana menace body with a combat-step bounce stapled on.
The format physics cooperate. Common ground bodies sit at 2/2 and 2/3, so menace demands a genuine two-card block, and the 1/3 back end survives the damage-based removal like Bot Bashing Time that punishes most two-drops. The real punisher is Grounded for Life: because the Sneak cast drops him onto the battlefield tapped, the white removal arrives at its cheaper rate the turn he attacks, exactly the window it wants. Stomped by the Foot is the cleaner answer black drafters lean on, killing him before the lord ever pays off. He is worth the early pick anyway; the threat density behind him is too high to leave on the table.
Maindeck in three archetypes, sideboard in none.
