Spellbook Vendor

The optional payment each combat is where this engine lives, and it works by minting a fresh Sorcerer Role token instead of dragging one enchantment around the board. That distinction matters: spend the mana this turn and you attach a new Role to whichever attacker you choose, while a creature you enhanced earlier keeps the Role it already carries. The one-Role-per-creature limit only bites when you stack a second Role on the same body, at which point the older token is put into the graveyard to make room. Left alone, the Sorcerer Roles accumulate across a wide board, which is exactly where the design steers you: several modest bodies each carrying +1/+1 and a scry-on-attack trigger, rather than one overloaded threat. The Role-token framework does the balancing work a permanent Aura could not, since each Role costs mana up front and never comes free. Vigilance on the 2/2 lets Spellbook Vendor itself swing while still holding back to block, though a Role placed on another creature still has to attack to scry. What emerges is a token-based value creature built on a small recurring investment: a mana and a target each combat, spent to smooth your draws while chipping in for damage.