Experimental Frenzy

The trade is total: surrender the freedom to play from your hand, and in exchange your library becomes a one-card slot machine you can play off the top every turn. You still pay full price for everything you cast; what changes is where the cards come from, and the fact that you see the next one before you commit. That bargain only pays off in the lowest-curve red shells, the kind where most cards cost one or two mana, so a stalled top card costs you a turn rather than the game. The honesty in the design is the always-on visibility paired with the hand lockout. You know what is on top, so you can sequence lands and cheap spells to keep the engine churning; but the moment a single uncastable card sits face-up, you are stuck until you can play past it. The self-destruct activation is the pressure valve: pay to blow up the enchantment and return to playing from hand, at exactly the cost of casting it again. Played tight it refills an empty hand without ever drawing a card; played greedily it strands you on a high-cost spell while the board moves on. The whole appeal is the line between those two outcomes, and how much of that line you can see coming before you flip the switch.