­Deep-Sea Kraken + ((C66151))

I do have a fondness for the big blue stompies. This one is actually really good, because it usually comes out about the time you could normally cast it. And is just flat out "6 damage a turn till you kill it"

And a forest that can explicitly make colourless, and it ETB tapped unless you -1/-1 a creature you control. So it exists in "play shenanigans with -1 counters" world; but ugh do I have loathing for explicit colourless.

A big green stompy that comes out faster if you throw around some -1 counters? That feels reasonable. Although green gets relative cheap stompies anyway.

Green does trample instead of unblockable. And... damnit, for some reason I want to call this "Corvax" but that is, of xcourse,a bird - and green really shouldn't get 8/8 trampling fliers :)

I guess this is sort of 'champion' (or some kind of freaky inverse modular). And... ugh. The simple wording "When ~ ETBs, distribute four -1/-1 counters among creatures you control." doesn't prevent you from just bunging them all on a sacrificial 0/1 token.

I want "Ok, 4/4 trample is good enough right now" to be an option, when the alternative is wiping out your four utility creatures. Bleh. "Such that they don't die" probably isn't template.

Ah well, words that convey the intent used; Werner von Browning the rest.

So here we go. 8/8 for... five? I'd like to say 4 - but that's probably pushing it too far; even if it IS only 4/8 really.

I think I want to push it slightly though. Flavour is some kind of big hungry thing. Either it's fed and healthy; or it's unfed and withered itself. So let's be explicit, and give you a way to feed it up after it ETBs too. That may not tie up quite nicely enough; but it's sure stompy.

"When a creature damaged by ~ dies; put a +1/+1 counter on ~."

Ugh; I just used +1 and -1 counters not only in the same set; but on the same card. Despite the sneakiness of it, that's a big no-no. We'll just remove the counters instead; that's probably clearer flavour anyway. And means you now maybe want to play risk games with it "I can keep more power on the table long term by weakening it as it comes into play... but will it survive to get bigger?"

Too many words for a green rare; really. But most of them are ETB. Make text box saner by using my "Let's move keywords to the type line" tech previous seen on Pegasaur Archer