Lightning Diadem

Six mana for a +2/+2 and a two-damage burn dart is a rate nobody was meant to take seriously, and that is the honest premise of the design: this is an Aura built to bundle a permanent boost with a one-time on-entry effect, the lineage of cards that want the body buff and the spell to live in a single slot. The split is real once the Aura resolves: the two damage points anywhere, so it does not have to go to the host creature's blocker, and you can throw it at a planeswalker or a face while the enchanted creature gets its bump. The catch is on the front end. Because an Aura targets when it goes on the stack, a removal spell aimed at the host in response sends the whole thing fizzling: the Aura never enters, and the damage trigger never fires. That is the structural fragility every Aura with an enters-effect carries, and it is the reason the genre keeps getting reprinted at filler rates rather than pushed. As a piece of design the card is candid about being filler: a clean, splashy effect that lets a creature deck grow a threat and snipe something small in one card, priced to stay out of any competitive conversation. The two-for-one risk is the tax; the on-entry damage is the partial refund.