Kazandu Tuskcaller

Count the investment and the problem is plain. A 1/1 for two mana that does nothing on its own, and before it taps for a single Elephant you need it at Level 2: two Level Up activations at each, all at sorcery speed. That is six total mana sunk across several turns into a body that dies to any one-toughness ping while it sits there leveling, and only then does it begin trickling out one 3/3 per turn, each token costing you a turn the creature survives. Level Up was the era's answer to fitting a long mana curve onto a single permanent: a cheap early play that becomes a much later payoff, and in the right shells the mechanic produced real engines. This one asks for too much before it gives anything back. The extra levels from 2 through 5 add nothing beyond that first Elephant tap, so reaching the Level 6 reward (a second Elephant per tap) takes four more activations after the first two. By then you are doubling output you were already far too slow to leverage. The tap requirement is the quiet killer: it punishes you for not protecting a 1/1 it never bothered to grow. Against green token-makers that simply enter and start producing, the structure here buries a fine 3/3-per-turn rate under a leveling tax that asks you to win the board before it will help you win the board.