Mushroom Watchdogs

Food decks tend to hoard: the token type skews toward durdle and lifegain, and a stack of leftover Food usually just sits there padding your total. This is the outlet that spends it. The pump costs no mana, only the sacrifice of a Food, and the counters it puts down stick, so the growth is real and cumulative rather than a temporary swell. What keeps that from being oppressive is the sorcery restriction. Because the ability is free to activate, an instant-speed version would let a green deck sit on a Food reserve and ambush combat, growing a 2/2 into a surprise blocker or pushing through lethal at the worst moment for an attacker. Nailing the activation to your own main phases removes that reach: each counter becomes a proactive commitment made on your turn, declared before combat rather than sprung on it. The vigilance it grants until end of turn reads accordingly, less a defensive trick held up at instant speed than a reward for having already sent this into the red zone. The whole thing converts a lifegain surplus into a permanent clock, which is exactly the exit a Food shell wants once its life total stops mattering. Unglamorous by design, and better for it: a workmanlike green sink built to keep rewarding a deck that makes tokens long past the point of needing them.