Stromkirk Condemned
A two-mana lord that pays for its anthem with cards instead of mana, and that trade is the whole design conversation. Most tribal lords give a static +1/+1 and ask nothing further; the cost is baked into the body up front. This one inverts it: the 2/2 frame is a baseline, and the team-wide pump only fires when you feed the graveyard, one card per turn. That makes it a worse lord on an empty hand and a far more dangerous one in a shell already built to churn its hand, where the discard stops being a tax and becomes the point. Because the pump resolves at instant speed, it stretches beyond a static anthem into combat trickery, pushing lethal through after blocks in a way the always-on lords cannot. It belongs to a small family of black aggressive creatures that monetize discard rather than punishing it, converting the friction of a graveyard plan into a board-wide stat swing. The tension is real: every activation is a card genuinely gone, so the more often you reach for the anthem, the faster your hand empties, and the deck has to be built to refill or to close before the well runs dry.
