Gastal Raider

Targeted discard usually pays for its precision by hitting only what the caster can already see, but this one narrows its aim in a stranger direction: it reveals the opponent's hand, then reaches past every creature, land, and artifact to pull a single instant or sorcery. That is a hand-tax built for one specific fear, stripping the counterspell before you commit or the burn spell before a race tightens, while leaving the threats it cannot touch alone. Against an empty grip or a hand full of creatures the trigger whiffs entirely, and that variance is what buys a body cheap enough to curve into. The max-speed half is the payoff: once the engine has fully spun up, the 2/1 grows and gains menace, converting a fragile utility body into an evasive attacker that keeps chipping at life totals. The two halves point the same way even if neither directly fuels the other. You disrupt the interaction that would slow you down, and the reward waits for a game state that presumes you have been the aggressor all along. It is a beater shaped around the assumption that you are ahead on the clock and intend to stay there, using the enter trigger to pre-empt an answer and the speed bonus to close before that answer would have mattered.