Informed Inkwright

Targeted removal and targeted pump have always paid for themselves in card economy: one card answers or improves one creature, and the ledger balances. This body flips that math. Point an instant or sorcery at a creature, yours or an opponent's, and Repartee hands back a flying body, so every piece of pinpoint interaction doubles as a token. The design's discipline is the target clause: it counts creatures, not any target, so a sweeper or a burn spell aimed at a face does nothing here. You have to be pointing spells at bodies, which is exactly what a spellslinger deck full of removal was already doing. Vigilance is the quiet part that makes the plan cohere: the Wizard can swing and still hold up its own removal on the crackback, defending the very board it is spawning. The Inklings arriving as white-and-black fliers is the tell for where this sits in the color pie, a Wizard that rewards the spell-heavy control shell with a stream of evasive chip damage rather than a single payoff. It is a build-around that asks a familiar question (how many creature-targeting spells can you justify?) and answers it with a token for each yes.