Sol Talisman

A mana rock priced not in mana but in patience: it has no mana cost at all, so the only way to cast it is the suspend line, one mana to exile it with three time counters and a free arrival three upkeeps later. That delay is the entire tax. You pay the mana early, the counters tick down while you develop the rest of your board, and the rock lands (turn four, if you suspended it on turn one) having cost a single mana and a slice of your opening tempo. The tension is between raw acceleration and waiting: a suspended rock does nothing the turn you commit to it, which is exactly the friction that lets it produce two colorless once it resolves. The ceiling comes from suspend's independence: the counters come off on their own schedule regardless of the board state, so effects that remove time counters early can pull the payoff forward and collapse the three-turn wait into one or two. It functions as a fixed-schedule alternative to the classic colorless-doubling rock for decks that can bank the tempo loss up front, and it asks you to read a game precisely enough to know when two extra colorless three turns from now will matter more than the mana and tempo they cost you today.