Herald of Ilharg

A payoff engine disguised as a beater. The 3/3 body starts small, but every creature spell you cast feeds it two counters, so it snowballs on your casting rhythm rather than on combat. The real hook is the mana-value gate: cast something at five or more, and the boar converts its accumulated counters into a face-burn payload aimed at each opponent, turning a go-wide creature deck into a reach-and-burn kill from a completely nonburn shell. That splits the card's incentives in a way most counter-accumulators do not: cheap creatures grow it fast, but the expensive spells are what fire the cannon, so the deck wants a curve that tops out rather than one that stays flat. The trample is almost an afterthought, a way to keep the counters relevant in the red zone if the burn line never comes online. What sets it apart from ordinary green stat-piling is that the damage sidesteps the combat step entirely: it does not care about blockers, a wrath the following turn, or a defensive wall, because the trigger resolves off the cast itself. Build wide and cheap and it is a threat; build tall with a heavy top end and it is a clock that punishes each opponent every time you deploy a finisher.