Furtive Analyst

The 1/4 body tells you where the value comes from: this is a durable blocker that soaks up early attackers, but vigilance is what lets it double-dip. Because it stays untapped when it swings, the card can chip in as a 1-power beater and still be available to block or, more to the point, to sink its two mana into looting on the same turn. The rate is deliberately slow: two generic plus the tap is a real tax to pay repeatedly, and looting is card-neutral rather than card-advantage, so this is a smoothing engine, not a refuel engine. That distinction is the whole design. A card that drew without discarding would need a much steeper cost or a much worse body; pairing draw with a mandatory discard is what lets a defensive three-drop carry the ability at a price you would actually activate. The reward is in the discard as much as the draw, feeding graveyard payoffs, flashback, delve, and reanimation targets while keeping your live cards flowing. It is the patient wizard's answer to flood and clot: a body that can pressure the board a little or hold it entirely, then spend its downtime trading dead cards for live ones for as long as it survives.