Canopy Crawler

Most amplify creatures take the Beasts you reveal, convert them into +1/+1 counters, and leave it there: a body sized by your opening hand, doing nothing afterward but swinging. The tap ability rewrites that math. Every counter loaded on entry becomes a repeatable pump you can aim anywhere combat needs it, so the Beasts you reveal keep paying out turn after turn instead of being spent the instant the creature resolves. That shifts the whole question from "how large does it enter" to "how much can it distribute," and it wants a board of other creatures to point the bonus at, since pumping itself accomplishes little. The friction lives in the moment it enters: amplify counts only the Beasts revealed as it enters, with no way to add counters later, so a hand emptied of Beasts before you cast it leaves a vanilla 2/2 with a stranded ability. And the deeper tension the mechanic never resolved is that the cards which make this engine large are the same cards you would rather have on the battlefield than holding back as fuel. Reveal too many and you have starved your own board; reveal too few and the activation is a rounding error. It is a clever attempt to turn a tribal hand into a recurring resource rather than a one-time stat dump, undercut by asking you to hoard the very creatures the deck is built to deploy.