Blindblast

The clause that carries this spell is the one that reads like an afterthought: that creature can't block this turn. One damage rarely kills anything worth killing, but stripping a blocker turns the spell into a combat opener, a way to push a stalled board into a clean alpha strike or clear the wall the defender was counting on to hold the ground. Pair that with the card draw and you get the shape red rarely keeps: a spell that advances the attack, replaces itself, and refuses to become a dead card once the game slows. It sits among red's cantrip removal, the family that trades raw efficiency for the guarantee of never drawing blank, and it earns the extra mana by doing two jobs in one instant-speed window. Timing is the whole discipline. Cast it in the second main phase and it is just a slow cantrip; cast it before the declare-blockers step and it rewrites the math on a single defender, taking a creature out of the blocking assignment before assignments are made so the point of damage lands as pure attrition rather than a kill. It is deliberately modest, which is the honest read: a card built for the attacking deck that wants to keep its hand full, not for the deck that needs to kill something outright.