Pollenbright Druid

Green rarely gets to touch counters that live outside its own +1/+1 vocabulary, and this two-mana body quietly ignores that boundary. The modal enters trigger is where the value sits: the first mode plants one +1/+1 counter on a chosen creature, useful on the awkward turn when the board has nothing yet to grow; the second proliferates, adding another counter of each kind already present to any permanents and players you pick. Because proliferate reads without prejudice (and without targeting, so hexproof and shroud never enter the conversation), that second mode compounds whatever the chosen permanents and players already carry: a planeswalker's loyalty, oil on an artifact, a poison total on an opponent, a full team of stat boosts, each incremented in a single resolution. That flexibility is what pulls the mechanic off the stack and onto the battlefield, where proliferate had historically lived on instants and sorceries rather than on a reusable body. The trigger fires once, so the 1/1 frame is honest about where the value sits; every point of it is spent the moment the Druid resolves, which is precisely why blink and recursion turn each cast into another round of counters. Treat it less as a payoff than as connective tissue: the cheap enabler that makes every other counter-generator in the deck compound, and the reason a green counters shell can route its incremental engine through creatures instead of spells.