While both bodyguards and Musketeers appear in amber as well, steel gets the nod as the primary ink for a dedicated bodyguard strategy because of Musketeer Tabard
Birthing Pod is a build-around card, so it just doesn't do that much in singleton formats
That means the first ability on Deathrite Shaman doesn't count (since it targets something), and the +1 on Xenagos, the Reveler doesn't count, since loyalty abilities can't be mana abilities
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As a result, if the control-changing effect does not give the creature haste, we will deal with a restriction on activating abilities and attacking: The Newly-borrowed through Lay Claim, and immediately animated Mutavault cannot give mana