Byway Barterer
Wheel effects have always been expensive: seven mana for the original, or a life payment, or a red sorcery that hands your opponents the same fresh grip. The trick here is that the refill costs no card and no dedicated spell at all. The expend mechanic reads your fourth total mana spent in a turn as the trigger, so the wheel fires as a byproduct of a turn you were already going to have: two cheap spells, or one four-drop, and the option appears. That reframes the discard-your-hand clause from a desperation button into a pressure valve. It rewards a low, aggressive curve that empties the hand quickly, then refuels it before the deck runs dry, and the "you may" keeps the ability from stranding you with a hand you would rather keep. The 3/3 with menace is doing real work as the delivery system: a body that keeps attacking while the engine ticks, not a fragile enabler that sits back. What balances it is the all-or-nothing shape of the payoff. You draw two, but only by pitching everything, so the card punishes hoarding and pays out hardest when you are near empty, which is exactly where an aggressive red deck wants to be. It is card advantage engineered for a color that historically had to buy it with damage or burn a spell slot.



