Aggressive Urge

Every combat trick carries a tax that nobody likes paying: spend it on a creature that gets killed in response, or hold it for a combat that never comes, and you have spent a card on nothing. Stapling a draw to the pump erases that tax. The +1/+1 is almost incidental, just enough to nudge a point of damage through or steal a marginal block, but because the spell replaces itself when it resolves, leaving it up costs nothing and firing it off rarely feels like a waste. The one window that still stings is the obvious fizzle: name a creature, watch it removed in response, and the spell evaporates with no card drawn, which makes the choice of target a matter of reading whether the opponent can answer at instant speed. Green seldom gets to refill its hand cleanly, so welding a cantrip to a tempo-positive effect smuggles a sliver of card advantage into the color without bending its identity. The template is conservative by design: a small, repeatable shape Wizards has reached for whenever it wants a green instant that smooths a curve without warping a board. It demands nothing of the deck beyond a creature to point at, so it has lived in green's lower power tiers for decades as a default inclusion rather than a build-around. The formula it helped cement (modest effect plus a card) is why none of its descendants ever feel like a real loss when they do little.