Torgal, A Fine Hound

A green two-drop that taps for any color is unremarkable on its own; the mana ability is filler stapled to a body. The real assignment is the counter clause, which asks a green deck to do something green almost never does: build around Humans. Each time you cast your first Human creature spell in a turn, it lands with a +1/+1 counter for every Dog and Wolf you control, so the reward grows as a tribe green does field (this card is a Wolf) feeds a tribe green rarely leans on. That mismatch is the entire tension. The two lists almost never overlap, and the card supplies neither half of the bridge: you have to manufacture a board of Dogs and Wolves and a curve of Human creatures to cast, and the payoff only materializes where they intersect. Note the throttle built into the trigger: it fires on your first Human creature spell each turn, not every one, so it rewards a wide board assembled across several turns rather than a single explosive dump. The counters also compound, since each new Dog or Wolf raises the bonus on the next Human you resolve. The card therefore doubles as fixing creature and, once the board fills out, a counters-matters aggro engine, provided you brought both tribes to a deck that would not naturally house either.