Kraven's Last Hunt

The genius of this design is that it turns a self-mill saga into a payoff that scales with its own first chapter. Chapter I mills five, then reaches into the pile you just filled and burns a creature for the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard: the removal is priced by how well the mill went, which means a dead fatty in the yard is doing double duty as ammunition. That's a rare loop where the setup cost and the payoff share the same card. The middle chapter is quiet by comparison, a +2/+2 pump on your turn that mostly exists to bridge the gap while the lore counters advance, but it can push a creature that survived combat into lethal range or salvage a trade. Chapter III hands back a creature card from the graveyard, and here the sequencing pays off again: the beefy body you milled and used as burn damage on chapter one is exactly the thing you'd want to return two turns later. The whole structure asks you to think three turns ahead about which creatures live where, treating your graveyard as a resource to be spent and refilled across the saga's life rather than a static pile. Green rarely gets direct creature removal without a fight attached; wiring it to a graveyard-power engine is the kind of workaround that makes the color's disadvantage into a deckbuilding constraint worth building around.