Winged Hive Tyrant

Anthems usually name a subtype and grant a keyword to that tribe; this one keys off a game-state condition instead, granting flying and haste to any other creature you control that carries a counter. That single distinction reroutes the whole payoff. Tyranid decks pile +1/+1 counters on their board as tribal identity, but counters by themselves only make bodies bigger; the static grant here converts every countered creature into an evasive attacker that connects the turn it arrives. Haste is the piece that reframes the archetype's grind tools: proliferate effects and counter-doublers stop being slow value engines and become alpha-strike enablers, since adapting or growing a creature into a counter now means it swings that same combat with wings. The 4/4 flying, haste body is a serviceable clock, but it is not why the card commands five mana. The Tyrant wants to be one flyer in a swarm it has just handed evasion and immediate aggression. Because the grant reads counters rather than creature type, the reach extends well past its own tribe: any strategy built on +1/+1 counters inherits an evasion-and-haste engine the moment this hits the battlefield, whether or not a single Tyranid is involved. The choice to gate the buff on a state the deck already produces, rather than on a subtype, is what lets it double as a generic counters payoff and a tribal centerpiece at once.