Scion of Shiv

The word doing all the work here is "perpetually," and it is the reason this Dragon exists in a digital-only design space rather than a printed one. Ordinary firebreathing (the classic : +1/+0 that has adorned dozens of red creatures) resets at end of turn: pump it into a lethal swing, and next turn the body is back to baseline. This one does not reset. Every activation permanently ratchets the power up, so the mana you sink is banked rather than rented, and a stalled board becomes a slow-motion inevitability engine: leave three mana open across a few turns and the 3/3 flier grows into something no removal-light deck can race. That distinction (temporary versus permanent buff) is the entire pitch, and it only works in a game engine that can track a modified base value across turns, which is why this style of counter-free permanence lives where it does. The flying is what makes the accrued power matter: a ground creature that keeps getting bigger still eats a chump block, but an evasive one turns each mana investment directly into damage on the dome. As a red four-drop it is unremarkable on rate; as a mana sink that never gives the investment back, it rewards the exact kind of grindy, flood-prone game where every other red card has run out of things to do.