Dungrove Elder

A mono-green threat that scales with the exact resource the deck is already maxing out: every Forest does double duty, fixing mana and pumping the body, so the card grows for free as the game develops. The hexproof is the half that defines what kind of threat it is. An untouchable creature with a board-scaling clock is the textbook recipe for the green "voltron" plan, where the goal is to land one body the opponent cannot target and bury them under enchantments and equipment. The clause that quietly bounds it is the Forest count: only basic and nonbasic Forests register, so dual lands, fetched typed lands, and Forest-typed shocks all feed it, but generic green-producing rocks and off-type fixing do nothing. In a pure mono-Forest shell the elder is enormous; the moment the manabase splashes, the body shrinks. A flat-statted hexproof beater asks nothing of your lands; this one demands a manabase committed to one land type, and it punishes greed in the same breath. It sits in a small lineage of green creatures that turned untargetability into a deckbuilding mandate rather than a keyword, asking the pilot to stack value onto a single permanent and trusting the hexproof to keep that investment safe.