Prodigal Pyromancer

The color-shifted descendant of Prodigal Sorcerer, the "Tim" archetype that defined what a repeatable damage source looks like. The original lived in blue, an oddity of early design where the most iconic pinger was a Wizard who dealt damage with the click of a tap symbol. Moving the same ability into red is a small but pointed correction: direct damage has always been red's province, and a creature that fires a single point at any target every turn reads as a natural fit there in a way it never did in blue. The body is the cost of the engine. A 1/1 that has to tap to ping cannot do anything else with its turn, dies to the very damage it deals, and offers nothing on the turn it arrives. What you pay for is not a creature but a slow drip: pick off an X/1, snipe a planeswalker's loyalty, finish a burned-out opponent, all at the rate of one per turn and never any faster. That clamp on output is what keeps the engine fair; a pinger that dealt two, or that could untap and fire twice, would warp board states in a way this one never threatens. It is the patient, attrition-grinding cousin of a burn spell, and the lineage of repeatable tappers it belongs to has stayed a fixture of the design vocabulary precisely because the rate is so easy to price.