Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper

Spiritcraft as a slow fuse: this 2/2 banks ki counters on your Spirit and Arcane casts, and only after two accumulate does it offer, at the end step, to become something else. The flip side is the payoff a tempo deck actually wants: a soft counter that taxes any spell unless its controller pays two extra, fueled by the same counters that triggered the transformation. The lag between the halves, and the finite ammunition they leave behind, is what holds the card in check. The front face does nothing to the board on its own; its abilities only count and convert, and the flip checks at the end step, never on demand mid-combat. The back face cannot replenish itself: flipping swaps out the whole text box, so Jaraku has no way to add new ki, only to spend the supply the front face earned before transforming. The engine is a battery, not a faucet. Every counter you bank pre-flip is a Mana Leak you have already paid for, and once they are gone the body is just a Spirit with no further reach. It belongs to the Kamigawa flip-card experiment, where a creature's second identity rewards a specific spell-type investment rather than a mana threshold or a combat condition. The counter ability is the real card you are paying three mana to set up; the Wizard on the front is just the setup cost.