Thawbringer
The 4/2 body is the signal here: it wants to trade. Green rarely gets to pay for a death trigger without a sacrifice outlet, but a two-toughness attacker in a color built around bigger creatures dies in combat as a matter of routine, and this one banks a surveil on the way out. Front-loading the same surveil on entry means the card does its digging whether it lives or dies, so the aggressive stat line stops being a liability and becomes the engine's fuel: you deploy it, filter once, swing into a trade, filter again. That symmetry (enter-or-dies rather than enter-and-dies) is the quiet design choice doing the work, turning a fragile beater into a self-completing graveyard-fueler that asks nothing more than to be played the way its power and toughness already push you to play it. Green graveyard payoffs have grown steadily richer over the years, and a creature that fills two cards' worth of yard fodder while pressuring the opponent slots into that shell without costing a card or a slot to a dedicated enabler.
