Tribune of Rot
The mill trigger here is aimed inward, not at the opponent's library, and that inversion is the whole design idea. Self-mill has usually been a means to an end: fuel a graveyard, enable a reanimation spell, feed delirium or delve. This one converts the mill directly into board presence, but only through a variable it does not control. Two cards off the top of your own library, and each creature among them becomes a Saproling. On a good swing you get a body plus two tokens; on a bad one you get a body and a pair of cards ground into the yard for nothing. That randomness is what pays for the rate: a guaranteed token generator on a 3/3 attacker for three would be pushed, so the payoff is throttled by how creature-dense your deck actually runs. It rewards building around itself in a specific way, packing the top of the library with creatures so the trigger hits, which nudges toward the go-wide green-black shells that already want a mass of small bodies and a graveyard worth caring about. The two hybrid pips let it slide into mono-green or mono-black lists that still want the Saproling engine without committing to both colors. It reads as a token-maker first and a mill card second, but the mill is the mechanism, and whether the deck's creature count is high enough decides whether this is a value engine or a slow way to deck yourself.
