Towering Baloth

Nobody pays the full for an ability-light 7/6, and the card knows it: morph is the only reason this Beast got printed at all. Cast it face down for , indistinguishable from any other concealed 2/2 at the table, then flip it for once the lands have piled up. Add the two payments and you arrive at ten mana total, more than the printed cost, but the split is the point: green tends to accumulate its mana slowly across the back half of a game, and the morph route lets a creature this large show up as a placeholder while you wait, then graduate into a body that overruns most ground stalls. That structure solves the oldest problem with the green fatty, which is that a fully-costed eight-drop sits dead in your hand for half the game. Here it gets to participate early. The face-down body also reads as a genuine bluff, since any morph in the era could be hiding a removal-baiting trick or, as is true here, a beater stalling for mana; the flat front face only gives the game away in hindsight, and at the table a hidden 2/2 demands the same respect as any other. This is the workhorse entry in the morph-Beast line: no flip trigger, no evasion, just a heavy green body delivered on an installment plan that matches how the color actually draws its mana.