Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette

Copy spells have always fought their own clock. Fork, Reverberate, and their kin are held in hand and bleed value if the turn stalls: point them at something worthy or watch the card rot. Prepared solves that from a different direction. The copy effect rides on a 4/4 flier, so rather than clutching the trigger in hand you commit it to the battlefield as a threat and bank the payoff for later. Casting Striking Palette unprepares the creature rather than sacrificing it, so the beater stays on the board; the copy keys off the next instant or sorcery you cast that turn, which means the flier can sit primed across multiple turns and fire only when a worthwhile spell finally shows up. That is the structural move worth sitting with: a copy effect that refuses to commit until you do, welded to a body that keeps attacking in the meantime. Choosing new targets for the copy is the familiar half; the patience is the new part. Traditional copy spells force you to spend a card to double a single spell in a single window. This one lets you land the flier, wait, and later untap into a doubled removal spell, doubled burn, or a doubled finisher without front-loading the decision. Two spells stapled together where the staple is the entire idea, and the creature is what makes the copy cheap enough to sit on.