Pridemalkin

Trample-granting has usually lived on auras, anthems, or keyword-soup lords, but this Cat wires it directly to the counter it hands out, collapsing two effects that normally cost two cards into one body. The enters-trigger seeds a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, and the static ability then reads that counter as a permission slip: anything carrying one can push excess combat damage past a blocker. In a deck built around counters, the trample-granting scales for free. Every creature that grows also gains a way past chump-blockers, so the +1/+1 counter stops being a stat bump and starts being a combat-math override: a small creature holding one no longer trades its whole hit into a single blocker; the overflow lands on the player. The 2/1 body pays for that upside. It dies to almost everything and adds little to the board on its own, which keeps the card a support piece rather than a threat. What distinguishes it from a vanilla three-drop with a one-shot trigger is that it converts a counters shell's incidental growth into damage that actually reaches the opponent's life total, without asking for a keyword-granting aura or a dedicated finisher. The counter it distributes on arrival can double down on a creature that already has one or switch on trample where there was none; either way its job is to make the counters already flowing through the deck lethal in combat rather than merely large.