Boreal Centaur

A 2/2 for two with exactly one trick: a self-pump that runs on snow mana and fires only once per turn, briefly making it a 3/3 for combat before fading at end of turn. The buff is temporary and capped, so this is not a creature that snowballs into a threat; it is an outlet for the leftover snow mana a green deck generates once it has spent its turn elsewhere. The cost line carries all the tension. The ability is gated three ways at once: it demands snow mana specifically (so it pays off only as your manabase commits to snow sources), it can fire just once a turn (so it never spikes), and every snow mana spent here is one not spent advancing your board. That places the centaur among the snow-matters designs that recast the supertype as a resource you actively pay into rather than a passive rider, each posing the same deckbuilding question: how far will you warp your lands toward snow for a modest, repeatable bump? The body is honest about the trade. A one-point boost on demand is never a blowout; it offers the kind of incremental reward that exists less to win games than to give your snow commitment something to do when nothing better presents itself.