Mirrormere Guardian

A 4/2 for three trades durability for power, but the death trigger reframes what that brittle body is actually costing you. Two toughness folds in almost any exchange, and the Ring temptation on death turns that inevitability into a resource: block, trade, chump, or run it into a bigger creature, and the loss advances the Ring's ascension rather than ending in nothing. It is a beater built to be sacrificed, and the aggressive stat line encourages exactly the attacks that get it killed. That inversion carries the design. Green rarely wants its creatures to die, so pairing an oversized, fragile body with a reward for dying gives the color a bridge into a payoff structure that otherwise lives in black and red aristocrat shells. The temptation fires whenever the creature dies, full stop, so this is a cheap way to start the Ring's climb: the emblem sticks with you and its abilities accumulate as the Ring tempts you again, while your Ring-bearer designation moves to whatever creature you next want carrying the accrued protections and card advantage. As a piece of green attrition, it asks a familiar question in a new grammar: not how long can this creature survive, but what do you get when it doesn't.