Sylvan Scavenging

The end-step trigger is a two-stage engine folded into a single enchantment. The first mode is the workhorse: a +1/+1 counter every turn, needing only a creature you control, patiently assembling a threat across a game. The second mode is both the payoff and its own toll booth, since the Raccoon token only appears once you have a creature that has cleared a power threshold, and the counter mode is the most dependable route to clearing it. The card teaches its own sequence: pile counters onto one creature until it crosses the line, then start stamping out 3/3 bodies on each of your end steps. The power-four gate is doing the real balancing work. Strip it out and you have a flat token spitter; keep it in and the card wants a board that escalates, rewarding concentration of counters on a single creature over spreading them across several. The decision stays live from turn to turn, too, because any sweeper drops your best creature back under the line and returns you to counter-building duty. Green has long paired incremental growth with go-wide payoffs, but usually across two cards that have to find each other; keying the second effect off the first inside one permanent makes for a tidy, self-contained value loop. All it wants is creatures worth feeding.