Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
The Mul Daya have always been Naya's tie between land and life, and this is the design that pays that flavor off mechanically: a commander whose two halves feed each other with no outside enabler. The combat trigger reads modestly at 3/3, but the interaction is in the wording. The animated land keeps its type, so the +1/+1 counters you pile on with each landfall trigger stay put on a permanent that reverts to a mere land once the turn ends. Point a landfall counter at Obuun itself and next turn's animation animates a bigger land, since X scales with Obuun's power; grow the animated land instead and it carries its accumulated counters forward as a persistent attacker. What keeps this from spiraling immediately is the throttle on both halves: the animation touches up to one land per combat, and the counter lands on a single creature per trigger, so the board grows linearly rather than exploding. The strategic axis is board development that doubles as land development, a lands-matter deck that never has to choose between ramping and applying pressure. It sits alongside the small family of green-white-red landfall payoffs that ask you to weaponize acceleration, but it is the one that most directly hands your permanents a body: not a value engine content to sit back, but one that converts the resource you were spending on mana into the resource you spend on damage.


