Vengeful Creeper

Disguise sells information, not stats, and this design leans entirely on the bluff. Cast honestly for , its trigger simply never fires: the destruction happens only on the turn-face-up, so paying full retail buys a green fatty and nothing else. The real card lives underneath the face-down body, sitting on the table looking exactly like every other cheap concealed threat an opponent has already learned to fear. That ward tax is the pivot. Anyone who wants to preempt the flip has to overpay just to poke at a 2/2, and if they leave it be, the flip resolves as an ambush: the creature grows to full size and their best artifact or enchantment dies. Green already owns plenty of instant-speed artifact and enchantment removal, from Nature's Claim to Krosan Grip, but those announce themselves the moment they hit the stack. This launders the same Naturalize effect through a permanent that never reads as removal until the trigger fires. The distinction is timing and disguise, not stack interaction: flipping the card face up costs no window on the stack, but the destruction it unlocks is a triggered ability that goes on the stack and can be answered like any other. What the concealment buys is surprise on your own terms, the ability to flip mid-combat and strand an equipment carrier before damage, or to threaten a flip an opponent has to play around without knowing it is coming. The 5/5 rate is deliberately unremarkable because the card is not selling a body or a stapled Naturalize; it is selling the beat where nobody saw the removal coming.