Vivien's Crocodile

A green 3/3 for three that reads as a stat line first and a bonus second: the static +1/+1 while you control a Vivien planeswalker sits at the bottom of the card, deliberately out of the way. That ordering is the point. Cards built to reference a named permanent usually pick a failure state: either a synergy piece that is dead without its partner, or a bonus large enough that the partner becomes mandatory. This one refuses both. The body is fully functional on its own, so nothing is stranded when the crocodile arrives before its Vivien. The reward is a single point in each direction, which does not snowball, does not enable a loop, and does not restructure a board: it just makes the creature marginally better when the walker it wants is already down. The restraint is what makes the reference honest. A conditional +1/+1 asks nothing of the deckbuilder beyond running the walkers you were going to run anyway, and pays out only when the plan is already working. It is a small retinue piece, printed to make a Planeswalker feel like it commands loyal creatures rather than standing alone, and it earns that role precisely because it does not depend on the walker to justify its slot.