Bloodpyre Elemental

Five mana buys you a sorcery-speed burn spell with a 4/1 stapled to the front, and the question this card poses is what that staple is worth. The sacrifice activation has no tap cost, so summoning sickness never gates it: land the elemental and crack it for four damage to a creature on the same turn if you want. The only restriction is the sorcery clause, which is what keeps the redemption honest. You cannot hold it up as a combat ambush or a response to a pump spell, so the removal half never blows out an attack step. In exchange you get a permanent that has already dodged any counterspell aimed at the cast by the time you want the removal, plus the option to leave it deployed as a fragile attacker and decide later. That option is also the trap. The 4/1 frame dies to almost anything if you wait, so every point of chip damage you try to squeeze out risks the removal you paid five mana for, and the decision to swing or to sacrifice resolves differently every game. Committing the creature first and redeeming it later is a genuinely different texture than holding a clean instant; the brittle body is what makes that commitment sting, and what makes the patient line a gamble rather than a freeroll.