Scythe Leopard

Every green landfall deck wants a threat that costs nothing to include and cashes in the lands the deck is already dropping, and this is that idea stripped to its studs: a 1/1 that swells a step each time a land enters. Play it turn one, then crack a fetch or make your land drop, and it swings as a 2/2 or 3/3 before shrinking back at cleanup. That until-end-of-turn clause is the whole balancing mechanism: the buff is rented, not owned, so the card pressures you to time your lands during your own turn for combat rather than banking them, and it never snowballs into a runaway threat the way a permanent counter would. The design reads as a deliberately minimal landfall payoff, a creature whose only job is to convert routine land drops into incremental combat damage. Unlike landfall cards that demand a deck warped around extra land drops or built to chain fetches, this one asks for nothing structural; it simply rewards the dense, low-curve green starts that empty their hands of lands every turn. What the single green buys is a flexible early attacker whose ceiling is set by your draws and whose floor is the smallest legal body in the game.