Burrenton Bombardier

Reinforce is the keyword that refuses to let a card become a dead draw, and the design lives in a single choice you make on the turn you have the mana: cast a 2/2 flier and put a body in the air, or discard the card from hand and dump two +1/+1 counters onto a creature already on the battlefield. You never get both halves; that is the cost, and it is the honest part. The card is a commitment, not a discount. What makes the second mode worth holding is its timing. The counters arrive at instant speed, so the discard line is a combat trick: ambush a blocker, push lethal through, or rescue an attacker by growing it past the damage that was about to kill it. That instant-speed pump is the reason a clogged board or a flooded hand never quite renders this card useless; the evasive body and the in-hand trick answer two different kinds of game state, and you pick which one the matchup needs. The three-mana flier itself is unremarkable, chipping for a point or two and trading up only by accident. But it never has to stay just that: drawn early it holds the sky, drawn late it converts into a finisher's worth of counters at the exact moment you most want them. Reinforce trades raw efficiency for the guarantee that the card always has a job.