Omega, Heartless Evolution
The entry-trigger scales off a resource a Simic build was already hoarding: nonbasic lands. Duals, utility lands, and fetchable specialty pieces do double duty here, feeding the Wave Cannon without anyone warping a manabase to do it; the stun counters and lifegain arrive as a dividend on choices the deck made for other reasons. And where a single-target tapper locks one permanent, this reaches across every opponent at once, freezing each table's best untapped threat. The design axis worth naming is what stun counters actually do: they aren't removal, they're a tax on untap steps, so a heavy stack on a would-be blocker or attacker functions as multi-turn suppression rather than a one-time answer. The lifegain rides alongside as insulation, scaling with the same land count that fuels the lock. What keeps the whole package from being a rout is how front-loaded it is: the entire payoff is bundled into one enters-the-battlefield event, so once it has resolved and stunned the board, it settles into an 8/8 body with no repeatable engine behind it. The reward is proportional to how nonbasic-heavy the build was before it arrived, and it asks nothing further afterward. This is a ramp payoff wearing the clothes of a control finisher: land the creature, freeze the table's key permanents, and let the body close while opponents burn turns untapping.
