Ivy Elemental

Spend X mana plus the green pip and you get an X/X, which is the whole transaction: no evasion, no keywords, no upside beyond a body sized exactly to what you poured in. It is a mana sink whose worth is whatever number you decided to pay for, the green version of a dial you set yourself. The catch is that it pays nothing back. An X/X with no trample, no flying, and no protection is a creature whose entire value lives in the counters it entered with, and a single removal spell erases all of it at once. What it offers in exchange is reach at both ends of the curve: an early speed bump when you have little to spend, or a one-card finisher once a long game has left you sitting on untapped lands and nothing to do with them. Green has always trafficked in this kind of honest, unconditional size, the color that says the biggest creature wins and then hands you the knob to decide how big. Ivy Elemental is that knob in its plainest form, with neither the resilience nor the reach to defend the number you bought.