Resounding Roar

The cycling cost is the joke that makes the card honest. Cast for two, this is a plain +3/+3, the kind of pump green has printed since the beginning and asks nothing clever of the pilot. The flexibility lives in the cycling clause, and that clause is priced like a luxury: five generic plus all three colors of the Naya shard to discard it, in exchange for a card and a +6/+6 thrown at a creature. That is not a draw-step contingency you reach for under pressure; it is a late-game release valve, the thing you do when you are flush on mana, holding a dead card, and want to convert it into a swing that ends a stalled board. The design is built around the idea that a trick should never be a brick: early it pumps, late it draws and pumps harder, and the steep colored requirement is what keeps the cycled mode from being a casual second gear. The split between the cast value (+3/+3) and the cycled value (+6/+6) is the whole structure: the bonus doubles precisely because you have committed to a three-color base to access it, and the card never offers that doubled effect at a polite price. The cycling tax is the card insisting you build into Naya before it gives you anything more than a vanilla pump.