Gruff Triplets
Three bodies for one cast, and the design leans hard into the redundancy the name promises. The enter trigger checks that the creature isn't a token before minting two more copies, which means the payoff arrives once and then the swarm sustains itself: kill any one of the three and the survivors named Gruff Triplets each stack +1/+1 counters equal to the dead body's power. Removal isn't a subtraction here so much as a reallocation. Point a targeted spell at one, and the other two grow past where a single kill left them; the interaction rewards patience from the controller and punishes reflexive one-for-one answers. That death-to-counters clause is the load-bearing piece: it turns what looks like a fragile board of small creatures into a group that gets more dangerous the more you chip at it, so a board wipe is the honest answer while spot removal often just feeds the machine. Trample gives the eventual overgrown survivors somewhere to put their extra power. The copy-and-recount loop pursues a long-running green idea (make a lot of bodies, make them hard to profitably kill) and pushes it past the usual token stopping point, since the counters key on a name rather than a token type. It pairs naturally with any way to double or blink the enter trigger, because every fresh non-token cast spawns another pair that all answer to the same name and feed the same counter math.
