Izzet Chronarch

The reason to run this guild Wizard was never the 2/2 stapled in front of it: the enters trigger is the whole purchase, a five-mana one-shot Regrowth that buys back any instant or sorcery and happens to arrive on a body you can flicker. As a creature alone it is overpriced. Threaded through a blink engine or a sacrifice-and-recur loop, it becomes a reusable spell rebuyer, returning a counterspell, a burn finisher, or a tutor every time it re-enters the battlefield. The fragile frame is the deliberate part: a sturdier body would make the recursion a strict upgrade over just drawing a fresh card, but a 2/2 forces you to protect or reanimate it rather than slam it as a finisher. It belongs to a small line of value-creature-with-a-Regrowth-trigger designs that let blue-red decks turn their instants and sorceries into a renewable resource without dipping into true graveyard-loop combos. The restriction to instants and sorceries, rather than any nonland card, is the seam that keeps it a spellslinger tool instead of a universal value engine: the payoff scales with how many spells the deck already wants to recast, and evaporates for a build that leans on creatures or artifacts instead.