Patron of the Orochi

Offering rewrote how this body could ever reach the table. Eight mana for a 7/7 is a stat line nobody pays in full; the alternative cost lets you sacrifice a Snake at instant speed and pay only the difference, turning a midgame snake into an ambush on the opponent's turn. That instant-speed window is the part most readers miss: cast it during combat, after attackers are declared, and you have answered an alpha strike with a 7/7 you never tapped out for. The untap ability is where the Patron earns its tribal patronage. Untapping all Forests and all green creatures once per turn is a Vitalize stapled to a permanent, the engine half of an old mana-doubling loop and a way to swing with your team and still leave it back as blockers. Point it at creatures that tap for mana or tap to deal damage, and the once-per-turn clamp is the only governor keeping the loop from running away. As a member of the broader Patron cycle, this is the green seat: each Patron offered up a tribe and bolted a color-defining engine onto a beater, and green's contribution is the explosive, mana-and-untap-fueled tempo the color has always wanted from its big creatures. The Snake-sacrifice clause and the per-turn untap restriction are the two tethers holding all that potential energy at a price the rest of the cycle's offering creatures never quite matched in raw ceiling.