Silverquill Apprentice

Magecraft as a payoff class splits into two camps: the ones that build a board or drain life on every trigger, and the ones that funnel the reward into a single attacker. This falls firmly in the second camp, converting each instant or sorcery into a temporary pump that can point at any creature you choose. The +1/+0 is deliberately toothless on defense: it does nothing to keep the 2/2 alive through combat or removal, which is the constraint that stops a two-mana body from snowballing into an unanswerable threat off a fistful of cheap cantrips. What makes the effect more flexible than a self-only pump is the targeting: the buff does not have to land on the Apprentice itself, so a chain of spells can stack size onto whatever is already unblocked, and the copy clause means one fork or duplication doubles the trigger count without doubling the mana. The design ask is legible: you want a body worth pumping and a critical mass of cheap spells to pump it with. As the engine, the Apprentice is happier feeding a bigger attacker than swinging as the finisher itself, since the pump it generates is worth more on a creature the opponent cannot easily kill in response. It is the entry-level version of the spells-matter aggressive plan, the two-drop that signals which direction a deck wants to run before the heavier magecraft payoffs arrive.