Radha, Heart of Keld

The reason this three-drop feels like a mana engine wearing a warrior's body is the card advantage buried in the middle line. Playing lands from the top of your library is not just fixing: it thins the deck of dead draws every turn, smooths a Gruul curve that lives and dies by hitting land drops, and turns the top of the library into a resource you can spend before your opponent knows what is there. The first-strike clause is deliberately fenced to your own turn, which is the whole design: it makes Radha a menacing attacker without pretending she can block above her weight, keeping the 3/3 body honest on defense. The activated ability closes the loop by cashing in the lands the top-of-library consistency has been accumulating, scaling her size to a board state she helped build. That is the through-line the earlier Radha designs kept reaching for and never quite unified: a red-green legend who wants lands in play for both consistency and reach, rewarding a deck that flooded on purpose rather than one that treated extra lands as loss. Here the pieces finally interlock: see the land, play the land, count the lands, swing for the lands.