Encumbered Reejerey

A 5/4 body at this price is a rate white never keeps clean, so the card fronts it and charges over time. The three -1/-1 counters ship it as a 2/1 that has to earn the rest of its frame, and the currency it pays in is tapping: attack, crew, activate, convoke, or feed it to any effect that turns it sideways, and it sheds a counter and grows. What makes this a genuine design puzzle rather than a slow-burn creature is that the growth is tied to being used, not to time passing. A vanilla body accrues nothing sitting back; this one wants to be tapped, which means the aggressive line and the profitable line are the same line. There is a subtler tension underneath: the trigger only fires while a -1/-1 counter remains, so the moment the third counter comes off, it is a static 5/4 with no further upside, and the interaction between -1/-1 counters and any +1/+1 counters you add (the two annihilate) makes the endgame math its own small trap. It is the kind of counter-manipulation card that reads as a curiosity until you notice how many ways a white deck already has to tap its own creatures on purpose.