Springing Tiger

Threshold turned a plain green beater into a wager on your own graveyard, and this Cat is the cleanest statement of that bet: pay four mana now for a fair body, then watch it become a 5/5 the moment your yard crosses seven cards. The mechanic asked players to treat the graveyard as fuel rather than a dumping ground, so designs like this rewarded the milling, the cantripping, and the flashback that filled it. What separates this one from the rest of the threshold pack is its honesty about the deal. There is no payoff stapled on, no card advantage, no evasion: the whole upside is two points of stats in each direction, delivered late and conditionally. That makes it a barometer for whether threshold was carrying its weight as a deckbuilding constraint. In a deck genuinely committed to filling its graveyard, you get a green creature priced well above its initial rate; in any deck that treats threshold as a bonus rather than a plan, you get a 3/3 for four that occasionally grows. The growth is also a liability worth naming: the buff toggles off if your graveyard shrinks below seven, so the body is only as reliable as your count, and graveyard hate punishes it directly. Plain on its face, the design only makes sense once you remember threshold asked the entire deck to organize around it.