Trusted Forcemage

Soulbond's whole pitch was that a creature could hand a buff to whatever it walked in next to, and this is the most literal expression of the mechanic: a 2/2 body that, once paired, anchors a +1/+1 across both halves of the bond. The pairing language is the constraint that pays for the rate. A flat anthem effect would warp around it, but soulbond only ever touches two creatures at a time, and the bond breaks the moment you stop controlling either one, so the bonus is portable but fragile. The re-pairing clause is what gives it legs: when one half of the pair dies, this creature unbinds and is free to attach the buff to the next thing that enters. That makes it less a lord and more a recurring trick, sliding its bonus from one body to the next as the board churns. It sits in the long line of green midrange creatures that ask you to commit to combat math: not a raw stat dump in the Watchwolf mold, but a creature whose value scales with how many bodies you can feed it over a game. The math is plain and the body unremarkable, and the design makes no secret of its aim: a green common that rewards a wide, replenishing board rather than a single overcommitted threat.