Garenbrig Paladin

Adamant was the mechanic that quietly asked mono-green decks to commit to their color, and this beater is one of the payoffs that made the ask worthwhile. Cast it with three green sources and you get a 5/5 for five with evasion; splash it into a two-color shell and you get a 4/4 that still slips past small blockers. The evasion clause is the more durable half of the design: keeping it from being blocked by anything with power 2 or less turns it into a reliable clock against the exact chump-blockers and mana dorks a green board tends to leave lying around, while still respecting genuine defenders. The counter is the reward for building honestly; the unblockable-by-small-creatures line is what it does regardless. Both halves point the same direction: green wants to be the deck flooding the board with bodies, and this is a threat built to punch through the resulting stalemate rather than add to it. Adamant made "how many green pips can you fit" a real deckbuilding lever, and cards like this are the reason the answer mattered.