Telim'Tor

Most flankers in their home set were cheap commons designed to grind through chump blocks one creature at a time. This legendary Knight rewrites the math at scale: rather than buffing a single body in combat, its attack trigger pumps every attacking creature with flanking the moment the swing is declared, himself included. The design logic is pointed. Flanking already tilts combat toward the attacker by shrinking any blocker that does not share the keyword, so a payoff that fires on attack (rather than sitting static) compounds the pressure: the defending player watches the board grow before deciding how to block, knowing their interceptors will take a power penalty. Even with no support, he swings as a 3/3 that punishes flanking-less blockers, so the body is never dead; it simply scales from "annoying lone attacker" to "team captain" as the swarm fills in. The five-mana cost on a 2/2 base is the brake. The card is worth only as much as the flanking creatures already on the battlefield to receive the bonus, and the keyword never got the volume of support that would have made that anchor pay. It functions like a lord without a tribe in the modern sense, attached to a mechanic rather than a creature type. As an early experiment in mechanic-matters payoffs, before keyword synergy became a deckbuilding pillar, it reads as a narrow proof of concept: the attacking team gets bigger, the defenders get smaller, and the card rewards you for having already built the swarm it wants to lead.