Mageta the Lion

A board wipe strapped to a body, with two clauses that turn the rate from busted into careful. The first is the chassis: a Spellshaper, the creature subtype whose whole conceit is channeling a spell-like effect through a permanent on the battlefield, so the sweep lives on a 3/3 you have to keep alive rather than resolve once and bury. The second is the discipline that pays for it. Each activation costs four mana, a tap, and two cards from hand, a price steep enough that you cannot fire it on a whim. What you get in return is repeatability and asymmetry: the wipe spares Mageta itself, so a board that has stabilized around this single resilient creature can be reset turn after turn while Mageta stays put. The cost structure is the entire pitch. Card disadvantage and a heavy tempo tax in exchange for an effect that ordinarily decides a game on the spot, now available again next turn if you can keep the body alive and the hand stocked. It is one of the more honest attempts of its era to fold a flagship white control effect onto a permanent without making that permanent free; the friction is the design, not an oversight bolted on afterward. The Spellshaper frame asks a real question every turn it is online: is this the wipe worth two cards, or do you bank the body and the threat of it?