Welcome back to Name That Card! And yes, before you comment, this is Benalish Marshal. Development asked us to reprint this card because it was appropriate in the set we're building, but this set doesn't take place in Dominaria, so the name 'Benalish Knight' isn't appropriate. Also, they don't want the card to be just another Knight. In fact, they'd prefer if this card could help a potential less explored tribal deck.

So you're in charge of naming this functional reprint. What's its name and what is its creature type?

Given the description; I guess in a real set we'd know what the tribe was from the set.

But ok; underused white tribal. We can cross humans and spirits off the list immediately... How about Unicorns? They are iconically white, and are a barely supported tribe. So we can imagine this set is making them a proper tribe. (Maybe the set is... steampunk vs the wyld hunt. Damn, I want that set to be a thing now. Kaladesh invades Lorwyn.)

So we have much more militant unicorns here - to quote "It's a bloody great horse with a sharp pointy spike on one end". Hmm, sadly the head of a herd doesn't seem to have a particularly interesting name. (Alpha stallion). How about the leader of a charge(r) for the pun? Also doesn't seem to have a special name. Hoom. Famous charges? They've got 'light' right in there. Parfait, but we want to be a bit subtle... Which leads us to "Ronald". If this was mythic, I could use an individual name? But I doubt I could use Ronald.

Maybe I should just go generic. Unicorn Cavalry It fits the mechanic, and while it's a bit on the nose it makes this clear it's supporting everything, not just a(nother) unicorn lord.

If that's a bad name; Margaret, Heavenly Nostrils is my alternative.

Dee. Fault.

I like this but have difficulty thinking of any evocative names.

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­Creature - Rhox Flagbearer

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@Jack: Rhox and friends have creature type Rhino - did you mean that?

As for my own entry:

Scion of Loftfield
Creature - Kor Noble

This is intended to be not Zendikar, but some rather different setting where Kor are a major race. This time they have nobility, and Loftfield is a high plateau city and capital of its region. This is one of the princes or princesses.

Not sure if either Kor or Noble qualify for "potential less explored tribal deck" since neither of them have any printed cards that care about that type. I guess you can name either of them for Vanquisher's Banner and Door of Destinies and suchlike. (Oh... there is Armament Master, I guess.)

Sorry for my recent inactivity; I got a new computer and forgot my password. Just managed to get it back today. Also, it seems this website doesn't have a password recovery feature... Spooky!

Anyway, I actually remember in one of my cruddy cardsets (Xalai), I actually had Kor be a tribe...

As for my suggestion, I like the idea of this being some sort of nonhumanoid, since it has such a high devotion to white, it sort of makes sense it would be an almost incarnate version of that element...

in fact, magic already has Incarnations... that makes my job of explaining what I mean easier.

So, NAME is Panconcordicon (not to be confused with panharmonicon) and it's a legendary Incarnation.

Okay that went a bit off the rails on me, let's dial it back to not be a legendary... Also, I think this other idea of mine would fit really well as an archon.

So, let's call this Archon of Unity or Paragon of Solidarity, and it's creature type is archon.

PS my only gripe making it an archon is it should probably have flying, but oh well...

PPS this post is getting very long

PPPS, if we were to make this card a mythic (as was previously mentioned, though not suggested) and gave it flying... it could be called Panconcordicon, Paragon Prince of Solidarity, or PPPS for short. ha ha ha. unfortunately, that sounds like the name if a yugioh card that doesn't care about the typeline whatsoever, so feel free to not vote for it.

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Alex wins this week, though I found it painful to not choose the Rhox Flagbearer. I loved the concept, and I'd like to see some sort of Flagbearer tribal some day that didn't 100% revolve around 'the flagbearer mechanic'. Maybe next decade...

See everybody in (((NTC #067)))!

Congrats, Alex!

Also, I agree with J.M. , flagbearers seem like a neat concept. maybe they could have some sort of ability word named Inspire, which would buff the board in different ways or something else equivalent to a support role.