Prairie Dog

Restraint is the mechanic doing the heavy lifting on this 2/2: it only fattens up on turns you keep your hand full, docking you the moment you cast anything from it and asking you to hold that hand in check. That makes for a strange proposition among white two-drops, a creature that wants you to sit still and let its end-step counter accrue while lifelink keeps your life total buoyant during the passivity. The five-mana activated ability is where the intent shows through: pay it and any batch of +1/+1 counters you would place gains one extra, turning the slow one-per-turn drip into a multiplier that scales across your whole board as counter density climbs. That anthem-style overlay marks this as a counters-matter enabler, a payoff for decks built on proliferate and stacking synergies rather than a standalone beater. The Squirrel typing and the plain body undersell how specific the design intent is; unaccompanied it grows in a trickle and punishes tempo, and the ceiling only opens once the multiplier has a table full of other counters to compound.