Avatar of the Resolute

The body asks the rest of your board to do the work before it ever hits the table. A 3/2 with reach and trample for two green is already a clean rate, but the counter clause turns it into a scaling threat that grows with every other creature you control wearing a +1/+1 counter. The design lives or dies on density: in a deck full of counter-makers it lands as a four- or five-power two-drop with evasion and air defense, and in a deck without them it is an honest 3/2 and nothing more. That conditionality is the whole bargain, and it ties the card to a specific kind of build rather than a generic green curve. The reach is the quiet detail that makes it more than a beater, giving a counters deck a flier-killer attached to a body that already wants to swing. What it represents is a green two-drop priced for the floor and rewarded at the ceiling: the counter synergy is upside the casting cost never pays for, so you are never punished for drawing it early when the board is empty, only rewarded for landing it once the engine is running.