Granger Guildmage

A green one-drop with red and white activated abilities, this is a relic of Mirage's commitment to off-color activation costs as a fixing-and-flavor device. The body is mono-green, but it pays nothing without a splash: the pinger wants red mana, the first-strike granter wants white. That design choice puts the card squarely in the era's three-color identity, where Wizards leaned on guildmages to reward players who could stretch their mana across allied or enemy colors rather than packing every relevant effect into the casting cost. The pinger is the more notable half, and the self-damage clause is the discipline that prices it: every shot at a creature or player costs you a point too, which keeps a one-mana repeatable ping from running away with attrition matchups. The first-strike ability is the quieter combat trick, turning the Guildmage into a defensive tax that makes attacking into it awkward and lets a small blocker eat something larger. Neither ability is fast or splashy on its own; the card's whole proposition is that you have the mana to do both, on a body cheap enough to deploy turn one and leave up activation later. It belongs to a vanished design vocabulary, the kind of multicolor-via-activation creature that has largely been replaced by gold cards and hybrid mana.