Flameblade Adept

The whole point of this jackal is that discard stops being a cost and becomes a trigger. Most graveyard-matters decks treat the cards they throw away as fuel for something else: a delirium count, a reanimation target, a madness payoff. This one cares about the event of a card leaving your hand, no matter where it lands or why. Cycle a card in your first main phase to dig and the body grows before combat; loot away a dead draw to a rummager and it grows again; get hit by an opponent's discard effect on your own turn and the trigger still fires, because the ability reads the act, not your intent. Menace is the structural pair to that pump: a 1/2 that can climb to a 4/2 or higher in a turn needs to actually connect, and a single chump blocker is exactly what menace strips away. The design lives or dies on density. By itself it is a one-drop with a defensive body and a keyword, doing almost nothing. Built around a hand of cycling lands and discard outlets, every card you would otherwise write off as a non-resource becomes incremental damage, and the creature converts your overflow into a clock. It states an idea that runs through several discard-aggro shells and states it plainly: turn the graveyard's intake valve into the win condition, rather than the graveyard itself.