Fast // Furious

A split card built so its two halves answer to different phases of the game. Fast is a rummage priced for the early turns: pitch a dead card, refill by two, and keep a red tempo deck's hand churning without committing to a full draw spell. Furious is the sweep the same deck wants on the back foot, a sorcery-speed board wrath that sends 3 damage at every creature without flying while sparing your own air force. Because 3 damage is the ceiling, it thins the ground war rather than erasing it: X/1s and X/2s die, X/3s die, but anything with four or more toughness walks away, so Furious is a pressure valve against a wide grounded board, not a hard reset. The flying exemption is what turns a symmetrical damage sweep into a one-sided finisher when your threats are built around evasion. The split matters because either half can be cast alone for its own cost, so the card sits in hand asking nothing until the situation names its mode: a hand drowning in velocity plays Fast, a hand losing on the ground plays Furious. That is the case for the slot, one card doing the work of selection early and removal late without dedicating separate spells to separate spots in the deck. Both instincts are old red ones: trading a card in hand for a better one, and damage-based sweepers that punish small creatures hardest, packaged so the card never sits dead.