Fishing Pole

Most token engines pay for their output the turn you commit to it: a mana cost, a tapped body, a card. This one meters the transaction across your untap step instead. Loading a bait counter costs , taps the equipped creature, and taps the Fishing Pole itself, so you spend an untapped body to store a single counter and then wait. The payoff fires when the equipped creature untaps: the counter comes right back off and a 1/1 Fish arrives. Because the trigger and the counter both live on the Equipment, that payoff follows the Fishing Pole around; pay to move it onto a different tapped creature and the Fish arrives when that creature straightens up, not necessarily the one that loaded the counter. Each untap removes only one counter, so the loop tends to run a counter at a time; storing one requires tapping the Equipment, and an untap cashes one back off. The trigger does not care why the creature untapped, only that it did, which is where the sequencing sharpens. An out-of-turn untapper or a spell that readies your board can spring a stored counter into a Fish ahead of your own turn. Note the deliberate friction between the two halves: producing the Fish frees the creature, but the ability that loads the next counter also taps the Fishing Pole, so you cannot re-bait until the Equipment untaps too. Loading the bait spends the very resource the payoff waits on. A pun that turned into a genuine puzzle about the untap step.