Lashwhip Predator

A 5/7 with reach is the profile of a card built to end an attack step, and this one is priced to arrive precisely when an attack step is coming. Green almost never gets to set a toll and then waive it; here the toll drops by two whenever your opponents control three or more creatures, which is exactly the board state that makes a durable reaching blocker worth a slot. The result is a body that costs its full freight against a slow, creature-light table and becomes a bargain against the go-wide decks least equipped to grind through seven toughness. That symmetry is the coherent part of the design: the more an opponent leans on a crowded board, the cheaper the card that stonewalls a crowded board gets, and the reach staples the flying lane shut alongside the ground. Most green fatties pay their cost and hope the game lasts long enough for them to matter; this one reads the table and adjusts its rate to it, discounting itself into relevance against aggression rather than praying to survive to six mana. The scaling is keyed to a single scenario (opponents collectively fielding three or more creatures) and does nothing against a spell-heavy or control opponent, which is the honest limit on a card whose whole pitch is being cheap exactly when a wall earns its keep.