A-Civil Servant

The Citizen payoff that asks you to spend your board sideways instead of forward. Most token-matters and go-wide creatures want their small bodies attacking; this one wants one of them staying home, tapped, so the attacker crashes in bigger and unblockable-through-chump-blockers with trample. That's a real tension in a deck built to swarm: every Citizen you sit back to fuel the pump is a Citizen not adding to the alpha strike, so the ability rewards a wide board precisely by taxing it. The A- designation marks this as a rebalanced Alchemy variant, tuned for the digital client where the paper version needed a nudge; the underlying job stayed the same. As a two-drop it wants to come down early and grow across a curve of go-wide bodies, the kind of creature that turns a stalled aggro board into lethal reach without a combat trick in hand. The trample clause is the part doing the quiet heavy lifting: it converts a defensive Citizen's tap into damage that punches past a lone blocker, which is exactly what an aggressive Selesnya deck struggles to do on its own once the ground clogs. Straightforward in isolation, sharper the wider your board gets.