Plaxcaster Frogling

Most graft creatures hoard their counters or distribute them passively, but this one bundles distribution with a payoff that makes the whole counter economy worth protecting. The shroud activation hands instant-speed protection to any creature carrying a +1/+1 counter, and graft is the engine that spreads those counters around: drop the Frogling, parcel its three counters onto fresh creatures as they arrive, and suddenly the board is a network of valid shroud targets. That converts a fragile +1/+1 counter strategy into one that can flinch away from targeted removal, repeatedly, two mana at a time. It answers the central weakness of counter-based aggression: spend resources pumping a creature, then watch a single removal spell undo all of it. Here the counters are not just stats but eligibility for the protection ability, so the same resource that grows the board also insulates it. The body itself contributes nothing on its own, which is honest for a graft creature; the value is entirely in what it gives away and what it can shield afterward. It reads as a deliberate piece of the counters-matter design language: a card that only makes sense inside a deck already committed to spreading small bonuses across a wide board, and that rewards that commitment by making each beneficiary harder to kill.