Thelonite Druid

A Saproling-era curiosity that animates your manabase by feeding it bodies: the druid converts every Forest you control into a fragile attacking force, but only by paying a creature off the top each time. The design is built around the era's prevailing tension between board presence and resource attrition. Animating lands has always carried the same liability (every Forest that swings is a Forest that dies to removal aimed at creatures, and a board wipe takes your mana with it), so the sacrifice cost stacks a second tax on top of an already-risky maneuver. The effect lasts only until end of turn, which keeps it from snowballing into a permanent army and reinforces the all-in nature of the play: you commit a creature and expose your lands for a single combat step, then everything reverts. Where later land-animation spells like Nissa, Worldwaker or the simpler Living Lands handed you the bodies for free, this one demands a recurring downpayment, which is why it reads more as a relic of its design moment than a card anyone reaches for. The interesting wrinkle is that the sacrifice is fuel rather than waste: in a set built on tokens and expendable creatures, the druid was meant to turn chaff into a swarm of 2/3 lands. The math rarely justified it, but the intent is legible.