Valiant Veteran

A tribal lord that keeps working after it dies is a rarer thing than the anthem itself. While it lives, the static half is standard-issue Soldier support: a body that pumps the team. The graveyard activation is where the design does something more careful. Rather than recur or blink itself, it exiles from the yard to grow every Soldier you control at once, converting a dead lord into a permanent, board-wide advance. The distinction matters because those counters are printed on the survivors: the anthem is conditional on the lord staying in play, but once granted, the boost persists independently of it. The five-mana cost is the ceiling that keeps it from being a free late-game engine, and the exile clause ensures it fires exactly once, so a go-wide deck sequences it as a closer or a rebuild after a sweeper thins the ranks, not as a repeatable value loop. Structurally it does the work a manland or a recurring threat does for other archetypes: a hedge that points a card's second use in a different direction than its first. For a tribe that historically wanted only anthems and cheap bodies, folding a resilience mechanic into the lord slot is the interesting move. One card serves as both the pump you play on curve and the reload waiting in the graveyard for when the board has to be rebuilt from the ground up.