Reckless Scholar

The draw-then-discard loop that Merfolk Looter and Looter il-Kor built their reputations on gets stapled to a 2/1 body here, with one quietly important twist: the activated ability targets a player, not just its controller. Pointing it at yourself is the obvious mode (filter your draws, pitch dead cards, feed a graveyard you actually want stocked), but the option to make an opponent loot is the wrinkle worth tracking. The discarding player chooses what to pitch, so you cannot strip a specific card out of an opponent's hand; what you can do is push them through a deck you are racing to empty, or feed a graveyard you intend to disrupt or exploit. The fragility is the price for an engine this clean: a single point of toughness leaves no margin against incidental damage or a spot removal spell, and it cannot tap the turn it lands. But once summoning sickness wears off, the activation is instant-speed, and that matters more than the stat line suggests. You can hold it up on an opponent's end step, dig at the last moment before your draw step, or crack it in response to a removal spell to wring one more card out of it before it dies. That separates it from a creature that only smooths on your own turn: it is a repeatable, reactive selection engine for as many turns as you can keep it untapped and alive, with a targeting clause that lets it nudge an opponent's draws in ways most looters cannot reach.