Perrie, the Pulverizer
The counter-matters payoff that treats variety, not volume, as the resource. Most decks built around counters pile identical +1/+1 markers onto a single threat; the attack trigger here scales instead on how many different kinds of counters sit among your permanents, which quietly turns every stray marker into a full point on both axes: a shield here, a stun there, an oil counter, a page counter, a lore counter on a Saga. That design choice is what makes the enters-the-battlefield ability more than protection. The shield counter it hands out on arrival is not just insurance; it is the first entry on the ledger, seeding a counter type the attack trigger then counts. The card is a two-part engine that references its own first half. Green-white-blue is the natural home because it spans the widest slice of the counter vocabulary: the proliferate and +1/+1 support that green and white share, the artifact and Saga counters blue reaches, the shield and stun markers scattered across all three. Building around it becomes an exercise in counter diversity rather than counter stacking, rewarding a board that looks like a curiosity cabinet over one that dumps everything onto a lone beater. The trample rider closes the loop, ensuring the swelling target actually connects rather than getting chump-blocked into irrelevance.
