Littjara Glade-Warden

The graveyard is the resource here, not the battlefield. Where most counter-based pumps ask you to invest more mana or commit more bodies, this one spends what has already died: each activation exiles a creature card from your yard to drop two +1/+1 counters on a target, turning attrition into a slow, repeatable growth engine. The sorcery-speed clause is the tax that keeps it out of combat; you commit the mana and the graveyard fodder on your own turn, telegraphing the threat before the swing rather than ambushing a blocker with it. The body itself is where Changeling earns its keep. A Shapeshifter is every creature type at once, so the 3/3 counts as a member of whatever tribe your deck cares about, making it both an engine and a legal recipient for the counters it hands out, and a valid target for anything that hunts a specific creature type. That role suits a deck already stocking its yard with creature cards: self-mill, discard, and sacrifice loops that leave spent bodies lying around, waiting to be converted into a game-ending threat instead of sitting inert. The stat line is deliberately plain because the card is priced on the ability, not the frame. It rewards a graveyard you were building anyway, asking only that you have the mana to keep tapping and the patience to spend your dead creatures one activation at a time.