Ghave, Guru of Spores

The two activated abilities form a closed loop that points at infinity from the moment you read them: sacrifice a creature to put a counter somewhere, remove a counter to make a Saproling, sacrifice that Saproling, repeat. Left alone the loop is mana-negative and goes nowhere, so the whole card is a wager that you will find the free outlet, the cost-reduction, or the death-trigger payoff that turns the cycle profitable. A counters-matter sacrifice engine always has to answer that question of where the spark comes from, and this one answers it by handing you both halves and asking the deck to supply the rest. Anointed Procession doubles the token half; Cathars' Crusade pumps the whole board on every Saproling; a free sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar closes the gap and the table loses. The choice of colors is the point: white for the counter-doublers and anthem effects, black for the recursion and the aristocrat drain, green for the token and counter synergies all three feed. As a Fungus Shaman it sits at the head of a tribe that barely exists mechanically, but the relevant lineage is not creature type; it is the small family of cards built to combo with themselves, where the body is less a threat than a permanently available engine you protect rather than attack with. Few legends ask their pilot to assemble a combo as openly as this one, and fewer reward the assembly with a board that wins three different ways.