Prosperous Bandit

The Treasure trigger scales off connection, not cost: the tokens minted match the combat damage dealt, so this raccoon's payoff is a direct function of how big a hit lands. First strike is what makes that reliable, killing smaller blockers before they trade and clearing a path for the full 2 to come through on an open board. Offspring extends the math sideways rather than upward: pay the extra and a 1/1 copy arrives with its own first strike and its own Treasure trigger, though summoning sickness means it waits a turn before it can start converting damage of its own. The tension holding it all together is that none of the ramp happens without a real hit. A chump block or a single ground blocker shuts the payoff off entirely, which keeps a snowballing Treasure engine anchored to actually winning the combat step. What that produces is a ramp piece that only ramps when you are already ahead in combat, and only by the margin you win it by, then hands the accumulated tapped Treasure forward to your next turn. It sits in a line of small red bodies built to reward pushing damage through instead of sitting back, but it converts that damage into fixing and acceleration rather than pure tempo, an unusual job for an aggressive three-drop to hold.