Treefolk Seedlings

An early experiment in tying a creature's body to board state instead of a fixed number, and one of the barest versions of it ever printed. The toughness reads as fragile or enormous depending entirely on how many Forests you control: a heavy Forest count turns it into a 2/8 or larger wall, while a thin green base leaves it small. Other lands are irrelevant to the math; only Forests count, so the dependency is a direct readout of your own commitment to a mono-green base. That dependency is the whole design. The power stays pinned at 2, so this was never an attacker; the variable toughness makes it a defensive anchor whose durability scales with your manabase. It also carries the quiet danger every star-toughness creature shares: drop to zero Forests and the body falls to zero toughness and dies on its own, no removal required. Wizards has returned to the "toughness equals your Forests" template a few times since, but here the idea runs without a second ability to soften the bargain. You are buying a wall whose price is the purity of your mana base, and the card asks nothing more complicated than that.