Brutalizer Exarch
The body is the toll the toolbox pays. Green has always tutored at a discount when the search dumps the card into hand or onto the battlefield, but here the modal entry trigger only stacks the creature on top of your library, costing you a draw step to cash it in. That delay is what buys the second mode: a hard answer to anything green struggles with, bouncing a problem permanent to the bottom of its owner's deck instead of the top, which turns a single removal-style spell into a near-permanent tempo swing against anything that cannot easily redraw it. The two halves rarely fire on the same turn, but the design's real value is that one card covers both jobs: it finds your next threat or it deals with their best one, and you decide which after you see the table. The 3/3 frame is incidental; this is a value engine wearing a creature's clothes, recurable by anything that flickers or reanimates Phyrexian Clerics. What makes it durable across eras is the noncreature clause on the second mode: it answers planeswalkers, enchantments, artifacts, and lands that ordinary green creature interaction leaves untouched, all while remaining a creature you can blink, copy, or bring back for another choice.


