Chaos Spewer

A 5/4 for three that arrives with a bill to settle: pay two extra mana on entry, or take blight 2 and drop two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control. That fork is the whole design. The counters land on your own side of the board only, so the drawback is not removal pointed across the table; it is a question about whether your board can absorb the weight. Aim them at a token, a creature you were going to sacrifice anyway, or something already headed for the yard, and the "cost" evaporates. Feed them to a creature carrying +1/+1 counters and the -1/-1s cancel those out one for one, netting the state closer to zero rather than shrinking a body you wanted. The card sits in the lineage of oversized black-red beaters that price a big frame against a self-inflicted wound, but it front-loads the whole decision to the moment it enters rather than asking for ongoing sacrifice. What lifts it above a plain aggressive body is that the wound is convertible: in a deck built around -1/-1 counters or death triggers, blight 2 is fuel, not damage. The optional is the release valve for boards that have nothing worth blighting, so the creature never simply eats itself when the synergies are absent. Everything turns on which side of that fork your deck is built to take.