Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse

Most Adventure cards pair a cheap creature with a cheaper spell and bet both halves land at roughly the same point in a game. This one splits across the whole curve: the Adventure is a three-mana counter for noncreature spells, the main card is a heavy flyer with a 5/6 body that scrys 2 whenever it attacks or blocks. What the structure buys is a counterspell that stops sitting dead in an opening hand. Cast Psionic Pulse to answer the removal or the combo piece the turn you need it, and the dragon waits in exile as a finisher you can pay for later, so holding up interaction no longer costs you a threat you might otherwise have deployed. And because this is an Adventure and not a fixed sequence, none of that is mandatory: draw it in a game where the counter never matters and you simply cast the dragon straight from hand, cost reducers included, treating the whole thing as a seven-drop that happens to carry a mode. The scry-2 whenever it attacks or blocks is the quiet upside, smoothing draws once the flyer is swinging rather than deciding games by itself. The exile clause is the hinge that lets both modes coexist without either being free: the counter earns back its own card, but the dragon it leaves behind is a full seven mana you still have to find, on a body that closes rather than dominates.