Academy Elite

A 0/0 whose stature is borrowed from the entire table's spent spells. This Wizard tallies its counters from every instant and sorcery already sitting in graveyards the moment it resolves, so its size measures the texture of the game rather than your own development. Drop it into a board thin on spells and it dies where it stands; drop it into a grindy, spell-heavy standoff and it arrives as a real threat, sized by every answer both players have already burned. That count is fixed on entry: a snapshot of the graveyards, not a meter that keeps climbing. The coherence comes from the second half, which turns those counters into fuel rather than mere stats. Each activation shaves a point of body to draw and then discard, making the creature a battery that converts borrowed size into card selection on your own schedule, trading durability for filtering. Therein lies its tension. Hold the counters and you have a clock that grew on someone else's casting; spend them and you have a slow, repeatable loot that digs toward whatever you actually need. The design punishes casting it into an empty yard and pays out most in a game where a lot of spellcasting has already happened. A quiet, almost academic piece of work: a mage whose power is literally counted from the spells that were flung before it ever hit the battlefield.