Elder Gargaroth

What makes a green fatty stick is not the stats: it is whether the body earns its keep once the board fills up and the race stops mattering. This solves that by hanging its modal payoff on both attacking and blocking, so the same creature that swings for six can hold up a block that draws a card or spins out a 3/3. Vigilance is the hinge between the two halves, letting it attack without surrendering the defensive combat step where reach lets it eat fliers. Trample keeps it from being chumped into irrelevance once the ground gums up. The three modes cover the exact axes green midrange lives on (board presence, life total, card advantage), and choosing per combat means the card answers whatever the game is asking that turn rather than locking you in at cast. What it does not do is generate value on arrival: no haste, no enters-the-battlefield trigger, so the turn it lands is the turn it does nothing, and the engine only starts on the first combat it survives to see. That one-turn delay is the tax on an otherwise self-contained value engine stapled to a 6/6 that already carries three keywords. Read it as a threat with a built-in grindy back half, not a bomb that pays off the moment it resolves.