Soulbright Flamekin

Trample on a creature is the cover story; the third activation is the reason anyone builds around it. Pay two generic mana to grant trample, twice for no real reason, and the third resolution coughs up eight red pips: a net two-mana profit over the six generic you fed into the engine to get there, and a ritual disguised as a 2/1's combat trick. Most ritual-bodies of this era paid out in a single click; this one launders its explosive turn through a tax that punishes you for not already having the mana on hand. The trample-granting exists so the card reads like a combat enabler to anyone scanning the text once. Its real job is generating burst mana: ramping into something obscene the turn it goes off, fueling a storm count, or feeding an outlet that wants seven-plus available at once. The wrinkle every combo builder eventually notices is the color conversion baked into the cost. You spend generic mana to activate, but the payoff arrives as eight red, so the card filters whatever scraps you can assemble into a flood of a single color, which locks the engine into red-heavy shells able to actually spend it. A mana battery wearing a keyword-granting ability, the kind of deliberately misdirected design that buries a build-around behind a line most players read once and forget.