Kavu Primarch

Two cost-bending mechanics stacked on one body, pulling in opposite directions: convoke discounts the base spell by tapping a wide board, while the kicker is an additional cost that asks you to spend more, not less, in exchange for four +1/+1 counters. The tension is the whole appeal. Tap a yard of green creatures to drop a 3/3 for almost nothing on a tempo turn, or pay the extra freight to land a 7/7 worth of stats later. What makes the pairing clever is that the two abilities meet in the middle: convoke can pay toward the kicked total too, so a developed board lets you cover that additional cost without ever spending the full mana from your lands. The creatures you tapped out to cheat smaller threats onto the table earlier become the engine that funds the kicked finisher. It is a green design built around board commitment, then converting that commitment back into a single oversized threat, rewarding a deck that never stops adding bodies. The plain 3/3 base is deliberate; the card is meant to be either a cheap early play or a late board-state payoff, with no interesting middle gear. That bimodal split is the point, and it makes the card a quiet stress test for how much a token-heavy green deck can ask of one slot, since both modes draw on the same resource the deck was already accumulating anyway.