Nemata, Primeval Warden

The replacement clause elevates this above an ordinary Saproling lord. Most token generators ask you to spend cards or mana to build a board; here the board grows off the opponent's dead creatures, and it does so as a replacement effect rather than a death trigger, which means each kill turns straight into a body regardless of what killed it. Black-green token strategies have always struggled to keep a stream of fodder flowing without leaning on sacrifice loops or dedicated breeders; this design siphons that fodder from combat and removal, then hands you two outlets to convert it: a pump for Nemata itself, or a card off two. That last line is the quiet spine of the thing, a repeatable draw engine gated by mana and by how many tokens you can keep producing. The exile-instead detail carries a second, sharper edge that combat math tends to obscure: opposing creatures that die under this effect never reach a graveyard, so recursion, reanimation, and death triggers on the other side of the table simply stop functioning. What reads as a value snowball is also graveyard hate stapled to a 3/4 with reach, a treefolk built to grind attrition mirrors by turning every trade in its favor and denying the rebuy at the same time.