Bloodcrazed Hoplite

Most heroic creatures convert your targeted spells into raw size: cast a pump on them and they grow. This one launders that growth into removal. Every +1/+1 counter it gains, whether from its own heroic trigger or any other source, strips a counter off a creature an opponent controls, and crucially it keeps its own counter while doing so. The clever part is that the second ability never checks where the counter came from, only that one landed, so it fires off proliferate, off any effect from any source that puts a +1/+1 counter on this body, not just heroic. The result turns the heroic engine into a two-front move: you spend a targeted spell, you get bigger, and an opposing counter-based threat gets smaller in the same beat, with no cost to your own growth. What balances it is that the shrinking only matters against a board already invested in +1/+1 counters: a Hardened Scales accumulator, an outlast or graft body parceling out its pile, a monstrous brute that grew with counters rather than a static buff. Against an opponent with no counters in play, the second ability has nothing to bite, and the 2/1 frame means the math rarely snowballs before someone burns or blocks it away. Where most heroic payoffs ask how big you can make an attacker, this one asks whose investment in counters you can erode for free.