Shadowstorm Vizier

Most discard-matters payoffs convert a steady stream of incidental triggers into raw card advantage. This one converts the same stream into combat math instead. Every cycling trigger, every rummage, every hand-filtering discard hands the 1/3 body a temporary +1/+1 that lasts only the turn it fires, which rewards bunching triggers into a single turn rather than spreading them across the game. Cycle three cards at once and the flier swings for four; cycle nothing and it sits as a defensive blocker. The toughness-heavy body is the deliberate part: a creature built to survive the turns it does nothing and to threaten on the turns the deck pours its card flow out all at once. The evasion is what makes the math land. A ground creature that pumps for a turn can be chump-blocked into irrelevance, but a flier that pumps forces the opponent to have an answer ready before the trigger count climbs out of range, and a removal-light hand often cannot find one in time. That reframes the card from a value engine into a tempo lever: it favors the pilot who can chain enough discard and cycling in a single turn to close the game, not the one who grinds a long one. The structural insight is that engines which usually buy cards can also, in the right shell, simply end the race.