Moonshadow

A 7/7 for one black mana is a number that only shows up on a card born crippled, and the six -1/-1 counters cut it down to a 1/1 the instant it lands. What makes the climb back interesting is the trigger it runs on: not a sacrifice payoff, not a fetchland reward, but a counter that peels off whenever one or more permanent cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere. That "from anywhere" clause carries the whole card. It does not care whether the permanent died in combat, got milled, or was discarded; it just wants permanents flowing into the yard while at least one counter remains. The "one or more" wording caps a single graveyard event at one counter, so a mill spell that dumps five permanents at once trims exactly one, same as a single card. The way to remove counters faster is to generate separate events: sacrificing four creatures to a sacrifice outlet resolves as four sequential activations, each its own trigger, so a board dumped one at a time repairs the body four points, not one. That distinction is the whole line of play. It rewards a deck that stages permanents into the graveyard as discrete events rather than in one lump, and it swells one point per event while menace means even a half-grown version already demands two blockers. It repairs itself off attrition you were happy to have anyway, on a clock only your opponent has to answer.