Kraven's Cats

Green's oldest style of pump ability lives here in its most literal form: a body that grows two full steps for a fixed price, capped at one activation per turn. That once-per-turn clamp is what keeps a repeatable pump ability from spiraling into a combat-math nightmare; instead of dumping every mana into a single unkillable attacker, the card offers one meaningful bump and nothing more. The result is a 2/2 that reads as a 4/4 in the crack-back, exactly the kind of mana sink a green curve wants once the early plays are down and an extra land is doing nothing. The rate is deliberately unspectacular: three mana on top of the two-mana body to add two power, a ratio that has anchored the color's growth effects since firebreathing first appeared. What that cost buys is not efficiency but persistence, since the toughness bump lets the Cats trade up or survive a burn spell that would otherwise clear the board. This is common-rarity design working as intended: a floor as a turn-two play, a ceiling as a mana outlet in the late game, asking nothing of the deck around it except open green mana.