Scolding Administrator

Most counter-accumulation creatures punish you for losing them: every trigger you banked evaporates the moment the body trades or eats removal. This one closes that loop. Repartee turns your creature-targeting instants and sorceries into deposits on a two-mana battery, and the death clause lets you drain the balance into a survivor rather than watch it vanish. That reroute is the real cleverness. The value your spells generate doesn't have to live and die with this Dwarf; it can transfer, which means the opponent gains nothing by trading into it and often loses the tempo of a bigger threat suddenly wearing all the counters. Menace tightens the screws from the other direction, forcing the kind of two-blocker commitment that pays the controller either way (they trade multiple bodies, or the counters relocate on death). The rate stays honest through a narrow trigger: Repartee only fires on spells that target a creature, so a burn spell to the opponent's face or a counterspell for their bomb does nothing to grow it. That constraint shapes the deck around it. You want interaction that points at bodies (targeted removal that clears a blocker, protection spells, counter-scaling pump), which pulls the build toward a creature-forward spellslinger shell rather than a pure control deck. The reward is that your instants and sorceries stop being one-shot value and start leaving something permanent behind, and "who carries the counters when this one dies?" becomes part of every combat calculation.