Erdwal Ripper

A 2/1 with haste that grows every time it lands a hit is built on a simple feedback loop: connect once and it becomes a 3/2, connect again and it becomes a 4/3, and the threat compounds faster than blockers can keep pace. The haste does real work here, shortening the window an opponent has to establish a defense before the counters start stacking. The catch is the 2/1 frame itself, which is what pays for the snowball: one toughness means almost any blocker, any burn spell, or any ground stall stops the engine cold before the first counter ever lands. That fragility is the whole bargain. The card wants an open lane and a board the opponent cannot profitably trade into, and it falls apart the moment that lane closes. It sits in the aggressive-red lineage of creatures that reward unanswered attacks rather than raw stats, where the body is deliberately undersized so the payoff has to be earned through combat damage and not handed over on the play. Pump it, evade it, or clear a path for it, and a one-drop's worth of toughness turns into a clock that outgrows the rest of the board within a few turns.