Saint Traft and Rem Karolus
The pairing is the joke and the payoff at once: Geist of Saint Traft, the Azorius hexproof beater who won games by attacking with an untapped body attached to an Angel, folded together with Rem Karolus, the anti-spell hatebear. What comes out is a tap-counter engine that escalates. The first tap of a turn buys a 1/1 Human, the second a 1/1 flying Spirit, the third a 4/4 flying Angel: an explicit callback to the original Geist's Angel token, now the reward for taxing your own tempo three times over. The design tension is that tapping usually means attacking, and a 3/4 attacks once per combat, so the second and third tokens are locked behind untapping the creature mid-turn. That is what the convoke rider exists to solve. Every convoke spell you cast untaps it, and each untap resets it for another tap: convoke a creature, tap this to help pay, untap, tap again, laddering up the token chain within a single turn rather than across three. The two abilities read like separate hatebear grafts, but they are wired to feed each other, and the whole thing rewards a shell dense enough with convoke to keep the loop turning. It is a strange, specific piece of engineering: a legend built not for a color-pie identity but for a very particular kind of untap-and-tap sequencing puzzle.
