Faithful Mending

Draw two, discard two: a loot, which means this is filtering rather than card advantage, and that's the honest frame for what it does. Cast from hand you end up a card down, sculpting the two you drew plus two you were already holding into whatever shape the turn actually wants; on the flashback you break even. The value isn't quantity, it's quality plus a second use. Those first-cast discards stop being pure cost the moment your deck treats the yard as fuel: pitch a reanimation target, delve payment, or a bomb you can't cast yet, then dig again a few turns later off the flashback. Instant speed is where it earns its keep, sitting in an end step behind held-up interaction so you can represent a counter or removal and only cash in the loot once the coast is clear. The two life is small but rhymes with a color pair that wants to stabilize before it pulls ahead. Total castings cap at two, then the card leaves the loop permanently, the deliberate governor on the whole thing: you get the filtering twice, enough to feed a graveyard plan without spiraling into a repeatable value engine that a deck bends itself around. That ceiling keeps it a role-player rather than a build-around. Meant for decks that read their bin as a resource, not a landfill.