Lotleth Giant
The graveyard payoff at the tail end of a graveyard-matters deck, where the body is almost beside the point. Seven mana for a 6/5 is a rate nobody pays for the statline; the appeal is the entry trigger, which converts a self-mill engine into a single burst of reach at an opponent's face. That makes this less a creature than a finisher you build a graveyard toward, the cash-out for a deck that has filled its yard with creature cards through dredge effects, mill, and combat attrition. The wrinkle is that the damage only counts creature cards, so the engine loading it has to be creature-heavy rather than spell-heavy; a graveyard stuffed with instants and sorceries makes the trigger fire for nothing. And because the trigger fires once on entry, recursion turns a one-shot into a refrain: every reanimation or flicker of this body is another volley, which is where the card stops looking like an overcosted beater and starts looking like a kill condition. It is the rare reach spell stapled to a creature whose ceiling scales with how much work has already gone into the graveyard, and whose worst case (the Undergrowth trigger still fires off an empty yard, it just deals zero) is exactly why you only run it once the deck around it commits to filling that graveyard.


