Tajuru Stalwart
Converge gave the design team a way to reward color-greedy manabases without printing flat gold cards, and this is its most literal expression: a body that arrives empty and scales by the number of distinct colors you pour into its casting. Because the cost is , the ceiling is three mana, which caps the payoff at three counters: spend only green and you have a 1/2, find a second color and it is a 2/3, hit green plus two off-colors and it walks in as a 3/4. The card's power is gated entirely by the discipline of your fixing, not by spending extra lands; the counters reward owning a manabase that can produce variety early, not a bigger one. That makes it a deckbuilding test wearing a creature's body, asking whether you can support a wide color spread by turn three without stumbling. The Ally subtype hooks it into a tribe that cared about creatures entering, and the +1/+1 counters give counter-matters effects something to grab onto, but the load-bearing idea is converge itself: a clean knob for tying a creature's stats to how greedy your mana is willing to be, with the three-mana cost quietly setting the ceiling on how greedy it can get.
