Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider
The design goal here is a Boros attack lord that pays off going wide with something more surgical than a flat pump. The +1/+1 is the baseline: every other attacker swings bigger the moment Tori commits to combat. But the two color-gated riders are where the build gets interesting, because they split the payoff along the two halves of the Boros identity. Red attackers gaining trample turns the anthem bonus into throughput, punishing chump blocks and pushing damage past a defensive board. White attackers untapping is the vigilance clause distributed across the team: they hit, then stand back up to hold the fort or crew again, which quietly rewards a build heavy on white bodies that want to both attack and defend in the same turn. The card is asking you to sort your creatures by color and get value from the ones you would not usually think of as combat-relevant after they tap. Tori's own vigilance and trample are consistent with what she hands out, so she leads the charge without the drawback of an open board. It is a Human Knight lord that never says the word Knight, which is telling: the reward is keyed entirely to attacking and to color, not to tribe, so any red-white assembly of bodies gets the full package. That makes her a commander for a go-wide aggressive shell rather than a narrow tribal centerpiece.


