Overlord of the Floodpits

Two spells share this slot, and they disagree about what the card is for. Cast it for its full cost and you get an immediate loot trigger on a 5/3 flyer that can swing next turn, drawing two and discarding one all over again each time it attacks. Cast it for its impending line and it lands as a noncreature enchantment carrying four time counters, useless in combat but never idle: the enter trigger fires the instant it resolves, so you loot before the thing has a body at all. You are trading tempo for position, planting a card-advantage engine ahead of curve and accepting a slow clock while the counters tick down. The wrinkle worth studying is what that noncreature window buys you defensively: sorcery-speed removal and board wipes cast on the turn it arrives find no creature to answer, and the payoff has already gone on the stack. When the last counter comes off, it flips into the 5/3 flyer and reloads the same draw-and-discard every swing. That body is real but brittle, dying to almost any block or burn, so the engine matters more than the beater it eventually becomes. The impending mode seeds an advantage machine early; the hardcast mode hands you a flyer with a draw step stapled to its attack. Same card, two entirely different reasons to run it out.