Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
A rummaging engine and a big-spell ramp source stapled to the same two-mana body, with the whole design turning on who controls the flip. Both faces carry a symmetrical toll on your first main phase: pay blue to become Rimebound, pay red to become Rekindled. That inversion is the wrinkle. The blue payment buys you the ramp face, the red payment buys you the smoothing face, so a deckbuilder committing to both colors is paying each color to reach the other color's instinct. Rekindled rummages whenever it enters or flips back, discarding before drawing to dig toward a payoff without netting card advantage; Rimebound produces two mana of one color spendable only on spells of mana value four or greater, so the ramp arrives earmarked rather than free. The loop between them is the point: transforming into either side pays out (a discard-and-draw on one, two mana on the other), so a build holding both toll colors can rummage one turn and ramp the next, resetting the trigger each time it flips. Rimebound's mana appears both at the start of your first main phase and the moment it transforms in, rewarding the flip precisely when a heavy spell is waiting to land. The card asks a player to run red and blue not for what each color usually offers, but for the toll each pays to unlock the opposite half.


