Silvos, Rogue Elemental

Eight power that tramples over chumps, paid for with three committed green pips and almost no demand on the rest of the manabase. The regeneration shield is the dividing line between this and the usual green fatty: most beaters this size fold to a single destroy-target-creature spell or a bad trade in combat, but a floating green mana keeps this one swinging through wraths and damage-based removal alike, since regeneration replaces destruction whether it comes from a spell or from lethal combat damage. The real holes are the answers that route around destruction entirely: edicts that force a sacrifice, exile, and -X/-X effects that drop the toughness of five below zero all kill it clean, and the regeneration ability never gets a chance to fire. That toughness is the deliberate soft spot, the reason a recurring eight-power threat does not simply run the table. The triple-green cost is the other tax: this is not a splash but a payoff for going heavy green, and what you get is a self-protecting threat that demands a hard answer rather than a clean one-for-one. Among the legendary green beaters built to grind through removal rather than race, this one wins by refusing to stay dead long enough for the opponent to find the answer that actually sticks.