Wildwood Geist

A 3/3 that swings as a 5/5 and blocks as a 3/3: the static buff fires only on your turn, inverting the usual logic of a midrange green creature. Most beaters of this size are flat-statted, equally happy to attack or hold the line. This one refuses to defend at full strength. The asymmetric timing window is the whole balancing act: the bonus arrives exactly when the creature can swing with it and evaporates the moment the turn passes, so the card can never bank its real size on defense. Conditional pumps usually read as risk-reward gambles, asking you to meet a condition before the payoff lands. Here the only condition is initiative. It costs nothing to be the aggressor and everything to sit back, which makes the design a tempo idea wearing the body of an attrition creature. The ceiling is precisely what the arithmetic promises, no more, and the discipline holding it together is that the buff keys to your turn rather than to combat or to a phase you could exploit on defense: it rewards pressing forward and quietly punishes the player who tries to durdle behind it.