Deathspore Thallid

Most of the Fungus family from this lineage are pure producers: they bank counters, spit out Saprolings, and leave you to find a sacrifice payoff somewhere else. This one folds the payoff into the same body. Each Saproling you bake costs three upkeeps of patience, but once it exists, the -1/-1 valve fires for nothing more than the token itself, no spore-counter tax attached. That self-contained loop is the point, because it collapses two normally separate roles, the generator and the sacrifice outlet, into a single 1/1. Feed it Saprolings from elsewhere and the removal ability has no counter cost at all; it just asks for fodder, which turns the card into a grindy attrition piece that picks off X/1s and stacks -1/-1s onto bigger threats within a single turn. The pace is the tension. One counter per upkeep is glacial, and three counters for a single token is a rate no fast deck would tolerate, so this lives in the slow, decay-flavored corner of black-green where attrition is the win condition and time is the resource you spend without flinching. The Zombie grafted onto the Fungus line is the flavor wrinkle: a rotting mushroom that feeds its own spores into whatever it touches, sacrificing its children to poison the board.