Soulbright Seeker

The trample-granting activation reads like the point, but the real design lives in the counting clause: the third resolution of the ability, and only the third, refunds . That single conditional reframes the card. A one-mana 2/1 that repeatedly hands out trample is a mediocre aggressive body; a one-mana creature that returns four red once you have pumped three times is a mana-positive burst engine with a hard ceiling. The discipline in the design is that the payoff fires once, not on a loop. You spend three separate times to reach it, netting a single red mana of profit on that third activation; the fourth and beyond cost mana with no refund, so there is no chaining into itself and no infinite window. The surge arrives as the ability resolves, after you have already committed the mana to activate it, exactly the kind of narrow, front-loaded acceleration a dedicated red build pours into a fixed payoff. The behold cost gates all of this behind a tribal commitment: choose an Elemental you control or reveal one from your hand, or pay to run the creature as a bare beater. That fork is where the aggression is earned. The pump text describes what the button does; the resolution counter defines the ceiling, capping the reward rather than opening it into something that spirals.