Falco Spara, Pactweaver
The top-of-library rider looks like a Future Sight callback, but the mechanism underneath is stranger. Casting from the top costs a counter removed from a creature you control, which means the engine is only ever as deep as the counters your board can carry. Because the leader itself arrives with a shield counter, the very first cast fuels off its own body; but each cast burns one, and an unassisted loop stalls after a single spell. That constraint is the whole design tension. It asks for +1/+1 counter accumulation, proliferate, or any repeatable way to stack counters on the creatures you already control, so a wide, counter-heavy board becomes a stockpile of pending spells rather than a static value engine. Note what it does not do: it does not draw the card, it lets you cast it. The spell still goes on the stack and can be countered like any other, so this is no way to duck interaction; the payoff is that nothing sits in hand to be discarded or stripped by a hand-attack effect, and you never spend a card to find the card. The flying, trample 3/3 is almost incidental to why the card gets built around, though the shield counter doubling as the first fuel for its own engine is a tidy piece of self-contained sequencing. What separates it from an ordinary value creature is that the counter economy on your creatures is the resource: every counter on a creature you control reads as a potential cast.
