Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have ", , Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life." Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra
Astor Tips & Tricks Keep in mind that Astor secretly costs five mana: four to cast it, and then one mana to pay for an equip cost right away, assuming you have a piece of Equipment on the battlefield
It's all you want from a big, splashy creature, and has a whole bunch of easy ways to juice up its Annihilator trigger to be big enough to just knock a player out in one swing
Hakbal is also a source of ramp, considering every time he attacks, you can play out the lands you've expanded into
after all, armies in a can are ubiquitous both inside the white color identity and outside it
I assure you there's a box fits both your budget and deck