Shivan Meteor

Thirteen damage to a single creature is so far past lethal for any creature that has ever wanted to be killed that the number is mostly a joke at red's own expense: this is a five-mana sorcery whose entire payload is overkill on a target that two damage would have handled. Suspend is the design's apology for that inefficiency. By exiling it for two turns early, the card converts a slow, expensive, situational removal spell into a cheaper one with a built-in delay, asking you to predict the creature you will need dead rather than react to it. That trade (front-load the discount, surrender the timing) is the suspend mechanic's whole bargain, and it lands awkwardly here because removal is the thing you most want at instant speed and on demand. The counter ticks down on your upkeep, the spell is cast the moment the last one comes off, and you cannot hold it for the right moment the way you could a hard-cast burn spell. What the meteor really preserves is a slice of red's old identity as the color of brute, indiscriminate destruction: not the surgical Lightning Bolt line but the older notion that red removal should be loud, oversized, and a little wasteful. The damage figure is flavor as much as function, a crater where a more measured color would have left a clean kill.