Sandsteppe Mastodon

Bolster distributes its five counters by a rule instead of a target: on resolution, it seeks the creature you control with the least toughness and piles the counters there. That resolution mechanic is the interesting part. The trigger itself goes on the stack normally, so an opponent can respond to it, but because bolster picks its recipient at resolution and never targets, they cannot make it fizzle by killing a creature in response. The counters simply land on whatever qualifies when the ability resolves. Your only input comes on a tie: when several of your creatures share that lowest toughness, you choose among them. On an empty board the Elephant can only feed itself, resolving as a 10/10 with reach that a single removal spell erases. Cast it beside a 1/1 token and the counters route there instead, leaving a 5/5 next to a 6/6: the same raw stats split across two bodies that one answer cannot clean up. So the payoff scales with the board you already have. The real tension is an inversion of the usual seven-mana haymaker. Most expensive green threats are the card you cast to climb out of a losing position; this one delivers its worst line precisely when you are behind, stacking five counters onto your lone survivor, and its best line when you are ahead, dumping them onto expendable fodder that suddenly demands a second answer. Reach keeps the base body honest on defense while the counters push the attack. It rewards the player who was already winning the board.