Snarl Song

Fractal tokens are Simic's counter-driven answer to the token board: not a swarm of independent bodies but two blank slates that scale with the effort you put into casting. Converge does the scaling, and the phrasing is what makes the payoff lopsided. Because both Fractals receive X counters (not X split between them), every additional color you route into the cast pays out on three axes at once: a fatter creature, a second creature just as fat, and a life buffer that grows in step. At two colors you get a pair of 2/2s and two life, fair to the point of dull. At the full spread of colors you get two 5/5s and five life, plus the board-and-tempo swing that finally justifies six mana. The card is a wager on your manabase, and the reward curve is steep enough that the ceiling and the floor barely resemble each other. That gap is the design: it hands a green-based deck a reason to stretch its manabase wide, and hands a two-color deck a body count and not much else. The blue-green Fractal identity also ties it to counters-matter shells, where two 0/0 baselines that arrive pre-loaded with counters read as engine fuel rather than raw stats: proliferate targets, sacrifice fodder that scaled itself, adapt-style bodies you can keep feeding. That is where the token half earns its keep beyond the numbers on the page.