Avatar of Might

Hold it long enough and an 8/8 trampler drops for two mana. That is the bet this card makes: a static check at the moment of casting that lops off the price whenever an opponent commands at least four more creatures than you, which is precisely the board state where a green deck is bleeding out under a wide army. It is a comeback haymaker that demands you weather the worst before it pays, and the body is chosen for the job: trample means the same swarm that earned the discount becomes chump fodder, the excess punching straight through to the player. The catch is unforgiving. The reduction reads the board only as the spell goes on the stack, and it applies solely while you are genuinely behind on creature count. Stabilize, trade off a few blockers, and the gap closes back to the full with no path to recover the deal. This belongs to a thin strand of designs that peg cost to the game state rather than a flat printed number, an inverted economy where a card sits inert in hand until the count tips and then resolves as a blowout. Where most "cheaper when losing" cards hedge toward modest rewards to soften the swing, this one refuses to compromise, asking only that you keep an apparently dead card in hand and wait for the worst moment to become the best one.