Massive Might

Green has printed the single-mana pump so many times that the raw stat bump reads as combat filler: it wins a trade, ducks a burn spell, sneaks in a couple of points. The trample rider is what earns this one a slot. Attach evasion to the pump and the calculus shifts entirely: a chump blocker no longer stops your attacker, and the surplus damage spills over to the opposing face. That is why the boost stays deliberately unremarkable, so the trample can carry the payload, and why the card scales upward rather than downward. On a small creature it is a marginal trick; on a threat already large enough that two extra points arrive as ten through a blocker, it becomes a finisher for any deck built around one oversized attacker. Instant speed compounds the trap. Holding a single green mana open lets the blocking player commit before they know the attack will break through, so they declare into a math problem you have already solved. Green midrange and ramp have long asked for exactly this shape from a cheap combat spell: two effects priced as one, unremarkable when the creature is small, lethal when the target is already the size of a win condition.