Avatar of Fury

A 6/6 flier with a firebreathing engine for two mana is a bargain that no eight-drop body has any right to, and that's exactly the wager this avatar makes. The discount fires only when an opponent controls seven or more lands, so the card is a punisher built before the vocabulary for punishers existed: it sits dead at the full eight against a tempo deck still developing, and crashes to a curve-violating rate against the control and ramp shells most likely to flood out. The asymmetry is the whole design. You don't control the discount, which is what keeps it a lever rather than a giveaway: the opponent decides whether to walk into it, and a careful pilot can hold a land or trade off resources to strand you at the back of your own curve. The : +1/+0 line is the follow-through, turning surplus mana into reach the static body never promises, but only after the threat has stuck. It's slow by construction, too: with no haste, even a cheap cast has to survive a full turn cycle before it swings, so the bargain price buys a threat, not immediate pressure. An early experiment in making a fatty's cost contingent on the table's manabases rather than fixed at printing, asking you to bet that the game will eventually become the kind it's built to punish.