Saddleback Lagac

The body is the tell: a 3/1 for four mana sits below the curve, a creature that dies to almost any combat or burn and never trades up on its own. That fragility is the design's whole point. The enter trigger distributes value outward the instant the Lizard lands, growing two of your other creatures before it throws a punch, and those counters are permanent even after the disposable body dies. It inverts the usual complaint about a vanilla-ish frame: you are not buying a 3/1, you are buying two points of distributed growth with a 3/1 stapled on as the trigger's carrier. That reframes the card as a source of counters that can fire again. Anything that flickers, reanimates, or copies the entry compounds the output, since every fresh arrival hands you another round of growth. The ceiling is fixed (never more than two other creatures, no matter how wide the board goes), so the math stays honest: a steady trickle of counters, not a board-wide swell. The design belongs to green's long tradition of spreading growth across a team instead of piling it onto one threat, doing the structural work of an anthem but stored on counters that outlive the creature that stamped them. Read the printed power as the cost of admission rather than the threat you are paying for.