Hunter's Edge

Green's fight spells have always carried a cost baked into the transaction: your creature takes the return blow, so the answer doubles as a risk to the thing you spent mana developing. This severs that clause entirely. It grows the attacker with a +1/+1 counter first, then has that newly enlarged creature deal one-directional damage to a creature you don't control, no damage coming back. The counter is load-bearing rather than a bonus, since the removal is priced off the boosted power rather than the base stat, which means the card rewards pointing it at something already sized to matter. That sequencing (buff, then deal) converts a modest board presence into a clean answer while leaving your own creature permanently bigger, dodging the mutual-destruction math of a straight fight without exposing your investment to the trade. What pins it below premium is the sorcery-speed clause: you can't hold it up as a combat trick or as instant-speed removal, so it commits on your own turn against whatever is already resolved on the board, not whatever threatens to attack you. It leans into green's identity of solving problems with creatures rather than spells, folding growth and removal into one card and pricing the removal off the growth so neither half feels tacked on.