Inspiring Refrain

Suspend is normally a discount mechanic: pay a reduced cost now, wait out the counters, cast the spell for free later. The design trick here inverts that relationship by folding a fresh suspend clause into the spell's own resolution. The card draws two, then exiles itself with three time counters rather than heading to the graveyard, so it goes straight from the stack back onto the exile shelf to reload. Only the first cast (or the suspend action) costs you a card from hand; from then on the spell recasts itself for free, every third upkeep, forever. That makes it a recurring draw-two engine that needs no graveyard, no sacrifice outlet, and no second card to loop it. Time is what governs the payoff: three upkeeps between refills means the advantage arrives on a delay rather than a burst, and any effect that clears exile or removes suspended cards severs the loop entirely. The suspend cost gives you a cheaper on-ramp than the six mana printed on the front, so the engine wants to be seeded early and left to tick while you spend real mana elsewhere. It is a clean reframing of suspend from a one-time down payment into a slow, self-sustaining card-advantage clock, and one of the few designs that treats the exile zone as a spell's permanent residence rather than a temporary waiting room.