Baloth Woodcrasher

Landfall's loudest demonstration. Most cards built around the keyword pay out incrementally: a token here, a +1/+1 counter there, a point of life. This one fires a +4/+4 trample pump every time a land enters under your control, which turns a single big-mana turn into a lethal swing. Drop your land for the turn, follow with a second from a ramp spell, then an additional-land effect: each is another +4/+4 stacked onto the same body, and the trample means none of it gets soaked up by a single chump. The 4/4 frame matters precisely because it is unremarkable on its own; the card is engineered to do nothing impressive until a land arrives, then to do far too much. It also rewards an instant-speed wrinkle most landfall payoffs cannot exploit. Land drops are a once-per-turn, sorcery-speed affair, but effects that put lands directly onto the battlefield (a cracked fetchland, an instant-speed ramp spell) trigger the pump mid-combat, shifting the point of the trigger from "ramp toward something" to "the land itself is the burst." That is the design tension of high-cost landfall made literal: the lands you were already going to find become the finisher, and the only ceiling on the damage is how many you can chain into one turn.