Vorosh, the Hunter

The wedge dragon built to snowball faster than the math feels comfortable. The first connection asks for a modest payment and returns six +1/+1 counters, vaulting the body to 12/12; survive to swing again and the next hit makes it an 18/18, then a 24/24, the growth compounding because each new size only widens the gap an opponent has to claw back. This is a Sultai finisher from an era when alternate-reality color pairings let a black-green-blue dragon exist at all, and the cost structure tells you where the leverage sits: the payment lives entirely in green, but the combat-damage trigger is the gate. Vorosh has to land a hit unblocked before it pays off anything, which makes evasion and the timing of that connection the whole strategic question. Flying handles part of that, but stapling the scaling to a successful attack (rather than an upkeep tick or a cast trigger) has a telling consequence: a chump block stalls the growth for a turn without unwinding the counters already banked. The body it has built stays built, and only removal claws back the lead. The payment being optional and repeatable hands the controlling player a per-turn choice: feed the snowball, or hold the mana for protection. It is a finisher that rewards getting in once and then refuses to let the game stabilize afterward.