Dreamshaper Shaman

Polymorph in red, and clamped to a schedule. The engine is the classic trade of a spent permanent for a random hit off your deck: pay , sacrifice a nonland permanent, then dig until a nonland permanent card lands on the battlefield for free. This is not a graveyard trick; the card you cheat in is revealed live rather than dredged from a specific corpse you buried, so the payoff is whatever your library serves. That distinction shapes how you build around it: you want a deck where nearly every reveal is an upgrade, which usually means thinning cheap chaff so the flip clears something worth the . The two-part tax is the design's fulcrum. The sacrifice restricts what you can feed it, and the mana raises the floor the pull has to beat, so the card only earns its slot when the swap comes out ahead of what you fed it. Firing at your own end step is the quiet virtue: the permanent you cheat in gets your opponent's turn and your untap to shed summoning sickness, and you sidestep tapping out to hardcast a fat threat during your own turn. The 5/4 body is nearly incidental, a chassis for the value loop bolted onto it, and a reminder that sacrifice-and-cheat was never a color-pie monopoly of black.