Soilshaper

Animating a land is one of green's oldest tricks, but pinning the trigger to a spell type rather than an activated cost is what makes this Spirit peculiar. The 1/1 body is a permission slip, not a threat: it sits inert until you commit to a deck dense with the right subtypes, and the payoff scales directly with how much of that you cast. Every qualifying cast lights up a land, so a turn that chains several triggers can swing multiple 3/3 attackers before the animation wears off at cleanup. The lands staying lands cuts both ways. It is no shelter from land destruction (the targets remain lands the whole time and eat every Strip Mine in the game), and the bodies are strictly a single-turn affair, gone by the time your opponent untaps. Where the design pays off is summoning sickness: because the lands have been in play, the animated bodies can attack the moment they turn on, turning an apparently empty board into a real combat edge mid-turn. The whole design sits on the spellcraft-matters axis this era explored, where the reward for casting was a recurring, board-state-shifting trigger rather than raw card advantage: a slow engine that asks you to assemble a critical mass of two specific subtypes before it does anything at all.