Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth

The prepared keyword hangs the whole design on a spent-and-reloadable resource: the creature comes into play with its charge, and refills the tank if the board has grown to eight or more lands. That threshold is doing real work. Early, this is a vigilant 3/4 that swings and holds back for defense without giving up the block, a fine body that pays for its own tempo. Late, once the mana base has sprawled past the eight-land mark, the attack trigger makes it prepared again every combat, turning a single-shot payoff into a recurring engine that only comes online when the game has already tilted toward the ramp deck that wanted it. The Regrowth half sharpens the split-card logic: green's classic graveyard recursion, priced cheaply and pointed at any card type, so the front half can arrive as a beater when the board calls for pressure and the back half can rebuy a spent bomb when it calls for grind. Splitting a value creature against a recursion spell is a deliberate hedge against flooding out; the card that fixes a dead draw is stapled to the card that ends games. What ties the two faces together is the land count itself: the same eight-land board that makes the creature self-sustaining is the board where you have enough mana to have already cast, and buried, something worth pulling back with the Regrowth side.