Gorilla Titan

An era that turned the bin into an engine and rewarded you for filling it produced this 4/4 trampler as the contrarian's answer: an 8/8 beater, but only while your graveyard holds zero cards, shrinking back to its printed body the instant a single card lands there. The buff reads like an aggressive payoff, but the condition is unforgiving and entirely binary. Not a creature dying in combat, not a sacrifice, just one card in the yard from any source switches it off. That makes the +4/+4 self-defeating in practice, because the natural cost of casting a five-mana green creature, ramp spells, dorks that have already traded, the cantrips that smoothed your draws, is exactly the residue that defangs it. The window where it operates at full size is the same window where you have done nothing yet: no spells resolved-then-graveyarded, no land sacrificed for color, no creature lost. It favors a deck that actively scrubs its own bin or one that simply has not spent anything. The tension is the point. This is a green threat designed to punish the recursive-engine plan rather than feed it, enormous only as long as the game leaves no trail, fading to ordinary the moment one does.