Saproling Infestation

Most payoffs attach to a card; this one attaches to a verb. The token fires on any kicked spell anywhere at the table, your own and your opponents' alike, which turns an optional-cost keyword normally used to sweeten individual cards into a shared engine that pays you regardless of whose mana funded the kicker. The design tension is sly: kicker rewards a player who has extra mana lying around, which is exactly the resource an opponent flooding out tends to be sitting on, so the harder both sides lean into the era's marquee mechanic, the faster the Saprolings stack up. That makes the card almost wholly dependent on the kicker density of the games it sees: where spells are kicked often it quietly assembles a board, and where they are not it sits there doing nothing but holding two mana's worth of green enchantment. Built to reward one specific shape of game (the grinding, mana-rich kicker mirror), it has little to offer outside of it, which is why it reads as a piece of clever block-synergy design rather than a card with a life beyond the keyword it was built to chase.