Pummeler for Hire

The entry trigger reads its life gain off the greatest power among Giants you control, which quietly builds a floor and a ceiling into the same clause: cast this with an empty board and it counts its own four, a modest cushion; cast it alongside a genuine haymaker and the one-time swing balloons. That conditionality is the whole point. The card is priced as a mid-curve tribal piece, worth the most in a deck already committed to the top end, and worth the least as a standalone threat. The keyword suite does the steadier work. Vigilance and reach turn a five-mana green body into a defender that still attacks, sealing off the ground and the air without asking you to pick one; ward two taxes an opponent's removal, protecting the creature itself rather than the life you already banked on the way in (that gain resolves once, on entry, and cannot be undone by killing the body afterward). None of the three abilities is loud, and none is trying to be. This is glue: a Giant that blocks fliers, holds the fort, shrugs off cheap spot removal, and pays a dividend scaled to the rest of your crew. The Mercenary tag is the flavor of a hired body, and it plays exactly like one: competent, self-sufficient, and more valuable the larger the company it keeps.