Stubborn Burrowfiend

Saddle usually gates a Mount's payoff behind a tapped-creature toll and stops there; this Badger stacks two graveyard axes onto that toll in a way most Mounts do not. The mill on saddle is not incidental garnish: it feeds the very count that sizes the pump, since X reads creature cards in your graveyard. Engaging the ability builds toward its own reward, self-milling into a larger swing while every creature you have already lost sweetens the total. What keeps this from spiraling is the timing window: saddle is sorcery-speed only, and the pump expires at end of turn, so this is a proactive attacking button rather than an instant-speed ambush. You commit the crew before combat, mill, and swing with a body sized by your yard, then reset each turn. The design invites a graveyard-adjacent green shell that treats fallen creatures as ammunition rather than waste, and the self-mill accelerates the count that other decks are working hard to keep off the table. A 2/2 attacking alone does nothing here; the engine depends entirely on having spare bodies to tap and a graveyard worth counting. That dependence is the tension the card is built around: the more you have already buried, the harder it hits.