Psychic Vortex

Most of Weatherlight's cumulative upkeep cards punished you for keeping them around by demanding ever more mana or life until the counter pile finally killed the permanent. Here the escalating cost is the reward: every age counter draws you another card, so the engine accelerates as it ages rather than choking. The brake lives on the back end instead. The end-step trigger forces a land sacrifice and dumps your whole hand, so the engine eats exactly what it produces: you draw a fistful, spend what you can, then discard the rest while your manabase erodes one land per turn. That closed loop is the whole point. It punishes hoarding and demands you cash everything immediately, an unusual tension to bolt onto a four-mana enchantment that anyone holding cards would otherwise treat as pure profit. The real leash is not the upkeep at all; it is the land you bleed every turn the enchantment stays in play, a self-destruct timer measured in your own mana rather than in counters. It is one of the set's most committed uses of cumulative upkeep as a chassis: a strong effect tethered to a clock that tightens whether you engage with it or not.