Bramble Wurm

The green fatty rebuilt as a two-stage life bank. Seven mana buys a 7/6 with reach and trample that gains five life on the way in, and the card holds one more installment in reserve: for you can exile it from the graveyard for another five. The exile cost is the whole balancing pin. Because activating it removes the card, that second payout is a single delayed gift rather than a recursion loop, which is what keeps a big-bodied green creature from spiraling into a grindy repeatable life engine. What you actually buy over the card's full life is ten life across two moments: five guaranteed when it enters, five more if you ever untap with the right mana after it hits the bin. Reach and trample make the body honest in combat, clocking most defensive boards and shooting down fliers rather than dying to them, but the strategic hook is the hedge against attrition. Even after the Wurm eats a removal spell or trades in a block, it still owes you five life from the yard, so the card resists the block-and-trade math that grinds down other midrange threats. It is a plain, self-aware design built for green decks that would rather outlast than outrace, and that prefer banking life against burn and aggression to committing everything to the board at once.