Satyr Hedonist

A green body that pays off in red mana is the whole pitch here, and it descends from a long line of one-shot ritual creatures designed to bridge colors for a single explosive turn. The math is the trick: spend two mana up front, then a red and the creature itself to net two red, a profit only if you have somewhere to dump it before end of turn. That turns the satyr into a stored ritual, a Pyretic Ritual you cast a turn early and detonate later, which is precisely how it slots into ramp shells and turn-based combo lines that want a burst of red mana rather than a creature that sticks. The 2/1 body is the consolation: it can attack once or chump while you wait for the payoff, but nobody runs this for combat. The design tension is the activation cost asking for the very color it produces, so the card never fully bootstraps you from green into red; it amplifies a red source you already have into a bigger one. That keeps it honest as a Gruul-leaning ramp piece rather than a true splash enabler. What it really represents is a small, recurring experiment in stapling a ritual onto legs, trading the immediacy of an instant for a permanent that telegraphs the burst a turn in advance and rewards you for already knowing what you want to point all that red mana at.