Volo, Itinerant Scholar

The joke lands before the mechanics do: the flavor text of the original Volo, Guide to Monsters was a naturalist obsessed with cataloguing every creature he met, and here that obsession becomes a card-draw engine indexed to diversity of creature types. The Journal token is the clever part. It is a legendary Book artifact with hexproof, which sidesteps the usual problem with a stateful counting engine (opponents cannot Disenchant your progress away), and it accrues a note only for the first instance of each creature type you cast, so casting five Goblins notes Goblin just once while casting a Goblin, a Wizard, a Beast, an Elf, and a Human builds toward a five-card draw. That constraint is what shapes the deckbuilding: this rewards a spread of tribes rather than a critical mass of one, which is the opposite of how most tribal decks want to be built. The activated ability itself is deliberately slow at two mana and a tap, and it targets a permanent named Volo's Journal, a phrasing that quietly leaves room for a second copy to feed the same query. Choose a Background hands you a second identity to fill out the rest of the strategy, but the Wizard's own axis is clear enough: play the widest, weirdest menagerie of typelines you can assemble and let the ledger pay you for the variety.