Serum-Core Chimera

An oil-counter engine that answers a real question spellslinger decks have always faced: what do you do with cheap noncreature spells once the board is empty and you are just churning cards? Here each cast banks a counter, and once three have stacked, the payoff is a loot-and-burn: draw first, then pitch a nonland card, and only that pitch fires the removal, three damage aimed at a creature or planeswalker. The chain matters more than any single activation. It rewards a hand clogged with situational spells, redundant burn you no longer need to point at anything, or a payoff you have already deployed elsewhere, converting dead weight in your grip into targeted removal. The flying 2/4 body is deliberately unglamorous, built to survive on the ground and chip in the air while the counters fill, not to close games by itself. What keeps the engine from spiraling is the sorcery-speed clamp on the activation: you cannot bank counters across a turn's worth of instants and cash them out on the opponent's end step to break up a combat or snipe an incoming blocker mid-attack, which would make a repeatable card-plus-removal loop far too free. Counters accrue whenever you cast noncreature spells, but value only leaves the card when you have priority in your main phase, three at a time, at a moment you choose. It is a slow-burn reward for a deck already casting these spells, turning surplus fuel into card selection and creature removal without demanding a dedicated combo shell.