Thelonite Hermit

The face-down body hides a Saproling factory with a built-in payoff: flip it, and the four tokens you make arrive already pumped, because the lord effect that pumps Saprolings is on the Hermit itself. That self-synergy is the whole design idea. Most lords sit on the board hoping you've already got a board; this one arrives, populates, and anoints in a single morph activation, going from a hidden 2/2 to a 1/1 alongside four 2/2 Saprolings the moment you pay the unmorph cost. The morph cost is steep enough () that the play pattern is rarely a turn-three blowout, but the timing window matters more than the rate: holding the flip until you have the mana lets you ambush a combat math you've already lost, dropping a wall of bodies at instant speed where your opponent expected a vanilla 2/2 to trade. It's an early example of morph used not just to disguise stats but to spring an entire board state, the way a face-down threat conceals a combat trick. As a Saproling anchor, it does double duty: payoff and producer in one card, which is exactly what a token-swarm deck wants from a single slot rather than splitting those jobs across two.