Fire Nation Cadets

A one-drop that pays you back for having the right card in your graveyard. The firebending 2 is conditional on a Lesson sitting in your yard, which splits this body into two jobs: an early attacker that needs no support, and a ritual-on-legs the moment a Lesson is present. That gating carries the card's cost. Firebending mana lasts only until end of combat, so the two red it adds on attack is not free acceleration into your main phase; it is a combat-step resource, spendable on tricks, on additional attackers with their own combat casts, or looped straight back into this creature's own pump. Notably, the the firebending produces fully covers a single pump activation, so once the Lesson condition is online the card can grow itself mid-swing off nothing but its own attack trigger, pushing an extra point of damage without touching your other lands. The design reads as a payoff piece stapled to a filler body: unremarkable when the graveyard lacks a Lesson, a small self-sufficient engine when one is present, and the reward turns on whether the deck is committed to putting Lessons in the graveyard rather than on how well the card is drawn. It asks a deckbuilding question (are you running enough Lessons to keep this on?) rather than a play-pattern one, which is the more interesting axis on which to gate a one-mana creature.