Marsh Hulk

Megamorph's premise is paying a premium up front to bank a counter on the back end, and this is the version that spends the reward on the body rather than a flip trigger. Face up, it is a 4/6 for six, sized to survive combat and clog the ground rather than close a game. The megamorph cost is the wrinkle: hide it for , then unmask it for , and the +1/+1 counter leaves a 5/7 that brawls through nearly anything its mana value would meet. Read flat, that is a slow, expensive roadblock; read as a sequence, it is a cheap early blocker that buys time before becoming a much larger one at instant speed, ducking sorcery-speed removal during the upkeep window and ambushing an attacker mid-combat. The trade is steep, because every line of play bleeds tempo: undersized and uninspiring now, or correctly sized but committed to a mana-hungry curve that eventually demands plus to fully unpack. That is the honest read on a creature built for the back half of a grinding black deck: a toughness-forward wall whose ceiling is high but whose price for reaching it is paid in turns. The structure is sound and the body is durable; the rate is simply where the ambition stops.