Gnarlroot Pallbearer
A graveyard-as-battery pump welded to a fair green fatty, priced so the trigger reads as bonus rather than a demand to reshape the deck. The 5/5 trample body is stock green rate, the kind of beater that trades or connects on its own terms, so the enters ability never has to carry the card. The buff scales off however many dead beasts have piled up: dorks that chumped, attackers that traded, whatever mill and sacrifice effects have been feeding the yard all game. The subtlety the rate hides is target selection. This creature keeps its trample to itself; the +X/+X does not hand out evasion. Dump a fat boost onto an existing groundpounder without trample and a single chump blocker still eats all of it. The pump wants a target that already tramples or already flies, and it wants to fire the turn a big yard is sitting there, because the trigger resolves once on entry and the boost expires at end of turn. There is no way to bank a stocked graveyard into a recurring swing, no repeatable engine, no second activation. That one-shot window is the whole constraint: a stuffed yard cannot cash out into a free alpha strike, only a single well-aimed blowout. Stapling one conditional pump to an honest body is the disciplined way to price a graveyard payoff on a permanent. It rewards the yard green fills as a byproduct without asking the deck to bend around it.
