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Mill as a strategy has always struggled with throughput: a single trip up the library rarely kills fast enough, so it lives or dies on whether it can keep activating. This little Vedalken sidesteps that ceiling by paying for its mill in energy rather than in its own charges, a resource that pools across an entire board instead of draining one card. The two counters it brings on arrival fund two activations alone, but the energy economy is shared, so every other producer in the deck quietly extends how many times it can tap. That reframes the body as the spout on a tank rather than a self-contained clock. The 1/2 body is deliberately modest: it survives an incidental ping, blocks a one-drop, and otherwise asks nothing while the energy does the work. Its real distinction is the conversion: it launders a counter-based resource into graveyard fuel, which makes it as comfortable feeding a reanimation or delve plan as it is feeding a deck-out. The ability carries no timing restriction, so the tap can fire whenever the window opens best (before an opponent draws, after combat resolves, or the instant a fetch goes on the stack), with the only real cost being the body's commitment for the turn. Three cards per energy is a clean exchange rate when the energy is flowing, and a one-mana creature that quietly mills nine across a game (more with help) is a steadier engine than its size suggests.