Mythic Proportions

A green Aura that stopped pretending to be combat enhancement and admitted it was a finisher. +8/+8 turns even a one-drop into a 9- or 10-power threat that demands either a removal answer or a chump block, and trample guarantees the chump block does not stop the bleeding. That number is built to convert an existing board lead into a finished game, not to trade favorably for tempo, which puts the card squarely in the Aura's structural bind: commit your whole turn, pour it all into one creature, and a single removal spell two-for-ones you on the spot. Most green pump Auras at this end of the curve insure against that with hexproof grants or graveyard recursion. This one offers no such hedge. Where Rancor returns from the graveyard after a trade and builds in resilience, this builds in nothing; the seven-mana price is the only tax written into the rate, and it buys raw size rather than safety. It asks you to already be ahead, then to close fast rather than grind incrementally. That is the whole identity: the green pump effect treated as a haymaker, riding entirely on whether your board is stable enough to absorb the risk before the swing connects.