Ancient Hydra

Fading 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with
five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your
upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {r}. If you do, Ancient Hydra deals X damage to
any target, where X is equal to the number of
fading counters on Ancient Hydra.

"Its stay is short, yet the scars are eternal."