Lorehold Apprentice

Magecraft rewards the player who empties their hand of instants and sorceries, but this apprentice does something odd with that reward: it routes the payoff through a creature type it doesn't hand you. The trigger fires on every spell cast or copy, yet the payoff only lands if you already control Spirits, and nothing on the card makes one. That gap is the whole design brief. Lorehold's identity is history and archaeology, a graveyard-and-Spirits theme that pulls the Boros pairing away from go-wide aggression toward a spellslinger engine that wants dead things returning as ghosts. Line up a board of Spirit tokens, chain a turn of cheap red and white spells, and each cast arms the whole board with a repeatable ping to every opponent at once: not a single burst, but a fresh tap-ability granted anew with every trigger. The friction is real. Untapping between activations matters, summoning sickness gates the tokens, and the buff expires when the turn does, so the damage has to happen in one window rather than accumulate. The card demands two commitments at once, spell density and a Spirit count, and pays out only where both are present. Sitting at the intersection of the archetype's two halves, a Cleric that cares about ghosts, it is far more interesting for refusing to be self-sufficient.