Thrive

The X here buys you spread, not size. Where most green pump scales a single creature, this scatters its growth across a board: pay enough mana and every attacker you control walks into combat one point bigger. That distinction is the whole design. A sorcery that targets multiple creatures rewards a wide board the same way an overrun effect does, but the counters stick, which turns a single casting into permanent investment rather than a one-turn burst. The cost structure is honest about its weakness: at sorcery speed you cannot bluff it as a combat trick, so the counters land on your main phase, telegraphed, and the opponent gets a full turn to respond. What it asks for in exchange is a token-and-counters base wide enough to make the X worth paying twice over, and a payoff for permanently grown creatures rather than a single haymaker. It is the kind of effect that anchors a go-wide green strategy where the counters interact with everything else you are doing: proliferate, counter-matters payoffs, anthem stacking. On its own it is a sorcery-speed mass pump with a tax built into every body it touches; in the right shell it is the engine piece that turns a board of small creatures into a board of relevant ones, all at once.