Insatiable Avarice
Two of black's oldest premium effects, welded onto a single one-mana chassis and priced à la carte. The base cost of buys you nothing on its own, which is the entire balancing act: Spree makes you pay for each effect at its real price rather than smuggling either half in at a discount. Pay
for a Vampiric Tutor variant that stacks your library for the next draw; pay
to draw three and lose three life; or pay both and run the whole sequence off one spell. The tutor half is the sharper one, because welding it to the draw clause fixes the tempo tax tutors normally carry: instead of finding a card one turn and cashing it in the next, the thing you fetched arrives inside the same three-card burst. The draw clause targeting any player, not just its caster, is the quiet knife: three cards and three life can be pushed onto an opponent when the arithmetic favors you, converting a card-advantage spell into a life-drain tool that nets you nothing in hand but everything in life totals. The design reads as a question about how much of black's card-flow identity you can fold into one modal spell without either mode arriving underpriced, with Spree serving as the pricing mechanism that keeps the answer honest.



