Hallar, the Firefletcher

Kicker as a payoff mechanic, not just a tax. Most cards that grant kicker hand you a discrete bonus on the kicked spell itself: a Fireball that scales, a spell that copies. This Elf Archer detaches the reward from the spell and parks it on a counter engine, so every kicked spell you cast does double duty: it resolves its own effect, then it grows the Archer and pings each opponent for the new, higher counter total. The damage is cumulative across the turn, which is the wrinkle that turns a slow clock into a burn finisher. Cast three kicked spells in a sequence and the second and third triggers fire at the inflated count, so the same kicker cost that bought you a card-by-card edge also assembles reach out of nothing but the spells you were already casting. Trample on a body that wants to keep accruing counters is the quiet half of the design: the same +1/+1s feeding the pings also push combat damage through chumps. What limits the engine is the kicker keyword itself, a mechanic that has never had deep support in any one color pair, so the Archer only hums in a deck built backward from a critical mass of kicker spells. Outside that, it is a 3/3 with trample. Build around it and the floor rises sharply with every additional payment you can afford.