Incandescent Soulstoke

Cheat an Elemental from your hand onto the battlefield for , hand it haste, and let the next end step sacrifice it: that is the whole transaction, and the temporary tenure is the design that keeps the price honest. What you keep is never the creature, only whatever it did on the way through. A death trigger, a heavy enters-the-battlefield payoff, a body large enough to swing a turn of combat: anything that front-loads its value turns this 2/2 lord into an ambush launcher, while creatures whose worth is in sticking around get nothing from the deal. The anthem is the quiet half of the package. Pumping your other Elementals reads as an ordinary tribal payoff, but it also means whatever you drop in arrives a size larger and hits for that much more before it returns to the yard. The card was built for the all-Elemental pile that wants both a count-it-up lord and a way to surprise an opponent with its biggest threat at instant speed, and it handles both jobs from a single body. This is no reanimation engine and no polymorph loop; it asks you to extract everything (combat damage, main-phase activations, a sacrifice trigger on the way out) within one turn, then surrenders the creature to the graveyard. The deckbuilding question it poses is always what the Elemental does on arrival, not whether it survives.