Greater Tanuki

Channel exists to solve green's oldest deckbuilding tax: the ramp spell that clots your hand once you have enough lands, and the fatty that sits dead while you're still fighting to hit your drops. Instead of running both and drawing the wrong one at the wrong time, this folds the two roles into one card and forces a genuine either/or. Pay the Channel cost and the card discards to function as a Rampant Growth, pulling a tapped basic from your library while the body goes to the yard. Cast it in full and it's a 6/5 that tramples over chumps and trades up into heavier frames. There's no sequencing trick: the card resolves as ramp or as a threat, never both from one copy. The split stays fair because neither mode is premium. The land arrives tapped, ceding a tempo beat to an untapped source, and a six-mana 6/5 pressures without dominating. The lineage runs through green's long habit of ramp-or-beater modality, from the older split fatties to creature-lands, but Channel refines the pattern by deferring the decision to when you spend the mana rather than committing it on the draw step. There's a quiet dividend for graveyard decks: activating the fixing mode dumps a fat body into the yard, so a single copy pays out both mana and fodder.