Kathril, Aspect Warper
Most graveyard payoffs care about a single card type; this one cares about a vocabulary. The design reads your bin for eleven specific keywords and, for each one it finds on a creature card, hands out a matching counter, then swells its own body for every counter distributed. What makes it distinctive is that it converts abilities into stats: a graveyard full of dead creatures becomes a checklist of evasion and resilience stapled onto whatever survivor you point the triggers at. Get flying, trample, and double strike in one pile and a single blocker becomes a real threat; add deathtouch, indestructible, and lifelink and it becomes a wall that also wins races. Because the counters land on any creature you control, the entering trigger is a distribution problem: you decide whether to stack the keywords on one recipient or spread them, and Kathril's own growth rewards volume regardless. It inverts the usual reanimator instinct, where the graveyard is fuel to bring bodies back; here it is a menu of qualities to graft onto bodies already on the board. The catch is front-loaded fragility. The whole payoff resolves once, when it enters, so the value is spent the moment it hits the battlefield; keeping it alive afterward, or engineering a second entrance, is where the deckbuilding tension actually lives.
