It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each +1/+1 counter on this creature
The one rule of lifegain: sources feed payoffs A lifegain deck has two halves, and it is dead without both: Sources cards that gain you life, ideally incrementally and repeatedly (lifelink, whenever a creature enters triggers, upkeep gainers)
If youre running this card as your Golgari commander, that means even if your opponent counters it the first time, you can just sacrifice the squirrels from your cast trigger to try again
The card ended up getting named after me, so I bought the art, and it now sits in my den along with my three other pieces of original Magic art (Jester's Sombrero and Look at Me, I'm the DCI from Unglued and Mise from Unhinged )
You can use Norman Osborn to set up your graveyard, and when you transform it into Green Goblin, you may cast these cards from your graveyard at a reduced cost