Lazotep Reaver

The cleanest builder of the Amass mechanic: two mana, a 1/2 body, and an enter trigger that pushes exactly one +1/+1 counter onto your Army. Amass was designed to solve a specific bookkeeping problem with token strategies, that a wide board of small bodies clutters the table and demands constant attention, by funneling every trigger into a single Zombie Army that accumulates rather than multiplies. If you already control an Army, the counter lands directly and you keep the 1/2 alongside it; if you do not, the token is created first and then fed, so one card converts into two separate bodies. The catch is the mirror image of the mechanic's appeal: because the counters all pile onto one token, a single bounce or destroy effect can undo several turns of investment in a way a genuine go-wide board would shrug off. Amass looks resilient and plays fragile, and this card is a good lens on why. Alone, a 1/2 that adds a single counter to a 0/0 is unremarkable; the design assumes redundancy, four or five sources stacking onto the same Army until it crosses into finisher size. As one node in that chain, it is the cheapest reliable way to start or advance the pile. As a card you draw with no Army out and no follow-up Amass source, it is filler with a spare +1/+1 counter attached.