Veteran Warleader
The Ally tribe's payoff cards mostly reward you for the number of Allies entering play; this one instead scales its body to your whole board, which quietly changes how it wants to be built. A wide creature deck, tribal or not, turns the Warleader into a threat that grows with every dork and token you drop, and the count includes itself, so it is never a blank on an empty board the way most X/X-by-count creatures are. The activated ability is where the tribal identity reasserts itself: tapping other untapped Allies to hand out first strike, vigilance, or trample means the surrounding board isn't just padding for the power calculation, it is a resource pool. Vigilance is the sneaky one, because it lets the Warleader attack while staying back to block on defense. Trample turns a big count into reach past chump blockers; first strike lets it eat something larger in combat. The friction is that every activation taps a body you'd otherwise want available, so leaning on the keywords ties up the very board you're leveraging. It is a lord-adjacent design that folds the anthem effect and the combat-modification suite into a single three-drop, built for a board that is already wide rather than one trying to get there.
