Yavimaya Sojourner

Read the printed cost as a bluff. At this Treefolk is a nonstarter, but the fee shrinks by one for every basic land type spread across your board, so a manabase touching all five collapses the price to three mana for a 4/6. That body is the point: wide enough to stall an aggressive ground assault, tough enough to shrug off the cheap removal that trades up against most three-drops, and big enough to punch back for four the moment you want to turn the corner. This is not a wall; it blocks profitably and attacks freely, which is what makes a domain-discounted price feel like theft rather than a defensive tax. The catch is that the discount only materializes if your lands are already sculpted toward a rainbow, which turns the deckbuilding constraint into the real cost; you pay in fixing discipline instead of mana. Stumble on your land types and the reduction shrivels, taxing a greedy manabase that has not yet come together. It belongs to a family of green fatties whose true price is settled at the deck list, not the mana pool: a threat that arrives late in raw stats but early on the curve once your colors are diverse. Nothing about a 4/6 for three is flashy; the design interest is entirely in how the sliding cost throttles the payoff to the quality of your mana.