Sangrite Surge

Six mana for a temporary pump effect is a heavy price, and the math tells you exactly what it buys: not the +3/+3, which is incidental, but the double strike riding on top of it. Against a creature already large enough to matter, doubling combat damage is the kind of swing that ends a game in one attack, with the +3/+3 serving as insurance that the body survives to connect and clears whatever blocker stands in its way. The sorcery timing is the tax that keeps this honest, since it can only ever be a proactive alpha strike, never a combat-step ambush that turns a chump block into lethal at instant speed. That restriction marks the gap between this and the cheaper, more flexible pump spells red and green have always offered: a finisher dressed as a trick, priced to close out a board where one big body is already poised to swing. The effect itself sits squarely in the Gruul tradition of throwing all the weight onto a single attacker and daring the opponent to find an answer in time, a line of design that rewards committing to one threat rather than spreading the board thin.