Free from Flesh

The +2/+2 is the visible payload, a cheap combat swing red has printed in every era; the two oil counters are the part that decides what deck this belongs in. Oil counters do nothing on their own: they are inert markers that only matter to cards built to count them, threshold on them, or convert them into effects. So this is a combat trick built to be a payment method as much as a rescue or a point of reach, spending its instant-speed window to load a target some other card is waiting to cash in. That divides its identity cleanly. On its own the pump is under-costed for its size in the sense that runs backwards: red has long granted a bigger swing for the same single mana, so the +2/+2 alone is a slightly below-curve trick, with the oil text explaining the gap. But paired with an engine that rewards a large oil count, the counters stop being a rider and become the point of the card, and the pump slides into incidental upside. It is a rare case of a trick whose two lines of text want to be evaluated by two entirely different decks, and the one you are in decides which line carries the card and which is the bonus.