Siegfried, Famed Swordsman

The self-milling threat is an old idea with a familiar tension: you want a full graveyard to fuel the payoff, but you have to survive long enough to get there. This design collapses both halves into one trigger. The mill-three feeds the yard, then the counter clause cashes it in immediately, doubling the count of creature cards already sitting in the bin. Cast it into an empty graveyard and you get a modest 2/2 plus whatever the three milled cards happen to give you; cast it late, into a grinder's yard stacked with dead creatures, and the multiplier does frightening work, converting accumulated fuel into a single swollen body. Menace is the piece that turns those stats into pressure rather than a wall: an oversized evasive attacker is a clock, not a blocker parked on defense. The scaling is entry-based, not persistent, which quietly disciplines the card: the counters land once on arrival, so flickering or recasting rewards a rebuilt graveyard rather than an infinite loop off a single body. It rewards a deck that treats its own creatures as fuel, with self-mill and sacrifice feeding a yard this then reads as raw stats, no reanimation required. The clever part is the sequencing inside the trigger itself: because the mill resolves before the counters are counted, those freshly milled creatures are already contributing to the multiplier, so the card feeds and cashes in the same beat.