Arboreal Grazer

Ramp that also blocks, and a rare case where the acceleration is paid for entirely by the body rather than a downside clause. Green ramp had long lived on sorcery-speed enchantments and one-toughness mana dorks that fold to any incidental damage; this one folds the extra land into a creature that survives sweepers pointed at small dorks and, with reach, walls the fliers aggressive decks lean on. The land arrives tapped, so there is no first-turn explosion, only a smoothed curve and a defensive floor. A 0/3 deals no combat damage: it does not trade, it stonewalls, absorbing an attacker every turn while the mana it laid down comes online. The quietly durable part is that the effect triggers on entering the battlefield, not on cast, so any way to blink it or return it to hand and replay it repeats the land drop, turning a one-shot ramp spell into a recurring engine. It asks nothing at deckbuilding beyond keeping an extra land in hand, and pays back a turn of tempo plus a body that holds the ground. Modest by every number it prints, but the shape (accelerate on turn one, then hold) is exactly what a lot of green decks want out of their first play.