Petalmane Baku

Mana fixing that only accrues when you do the thing you were already doing: each tribal cast offers a ki counter, so the engine fills up as a Spirit-and-Arcane hand resolves naturally. What separates it from a plain mana dork is the deferral. Llanowar Elves hands you a fixed color every turn whether you want it or not; this banks stored triggers and waits, then cashes its counters out at the moment you need them. Each activation costs and produces a single color, so converting into several colors at once means paying per color and spending counters for each: a green base soaking up triggers can sit on a fat reserve, then fire the ability twice in a turn to assemble the two off-color pips a splashed Spirit demands. The point is timing, not breadth. Because the activation carries no tap symbol, the body never commits to producing anything; it is a holding tank you can drain at instant speed, even the turn it lands, rather than a per-turn faucet you must tap on schedule. This 1/2 is the fixing node of the ki-counter family: the piece that lets a heavily tribal build reach a step outside its base color without warping the manabase, and without ever tapping the creature to do it.