Magebane Lizard

A hate bear pointed at a very specific kind of opponent: the deck that treats casting spells as free actions. The math is punitive precisely because it scales inside a single turn. The first noncreature spell costs its caster a point, the second two, the third three, and a storm-style turn that chains half a dozen cantrips and rituals ends up burning its own pilot for twenty-one before the payoff resolves. Every player pays for their own casting, so it does not care who controls it or where the spells point; it simply taxes velocity, and the more a deck wants to do in one turn, the harder the tax bites. The 1/4 body is the giveaway that this was never built to attack. Four toughness on a two-mana Lizard shrugs off the incidental burn a spell-heavy deck throws around and outlives the sweepers and pings such decks tend to run, while the single power announces that the whole job is the trigger, not the combat step. It belongs to the family of symmetrical anti-spell taxes that punish behavior rather than banning it outright, working the way life-loss and self-damage clauses have long policed decks that combo through their own resources. Against a fair opponent it does almost nothing and mostly stands around blocking; against a deck built to cast twelve spells in a turn, it turns the engine into a loaded gun aimed the wrong way.