Firebrand Archer

The reward end of a deal that asks you to run a creature in a deck that would rather have none. Spell-heavy builds live on density: every body you play is a turn you are not holding up a counter or chaining cantrips. This sidesteps that tax by being the spell payoff itself, turning the noncreature count you were already maximizing into a clock that ticks every time you do what you wanted to do anyway. The trigger fires on any noncreature spell (instants, sorceries, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers), so any spell-leaning shell can feed it, not just a burn deck. The damage hits each opponent rather than a chosen target, which fixes its strategic axis on reach instead of control: it cannot break a board stall or pick off a blocker, only burn faces. That narrowness is what keeps a two-mana 2/1 fair, since an engine that pinged on every spell and could aim the pings wherever it liked would warp games. The body concedes the other side of the exchange; the 2/1 dies to nearly anything and asks to be protected, so the drip only runs while your opponent is occupied with the rest of your spells. It sits in a small line of creatures that convert spellcasting into incremental damage, an heir to Kiln Fiend's per-spell aggression rerouted from combat into direct, repeatable reach: where Kiln Fiend wants to swing, this one only asks you to keep casting.