Storm Strike

Most one-mana combat tricks live and die on timing: hold them too long and they clog the hand, cast them into the wrong block and you two-for-one yourself. The scry is the design answer to that friction. First strike on an attacker is the part that swings combat: a two-power creature can kill a three-toughness blocker and walk away clean, and the +1/+0 nudges more attackers past their trades. But even when the block never comes or the race is already decided, resolving the spell still lets you scry, so the digging half of the effect always fires regardless of whether the pump mattered. That does not replace the card in your hand; scry is not a draw, and calling it a cantrip would overstate it. What it does is smooth the variance that punishes cheap tricks: the worst-case cast, the one where the combat step gives you nothing, still filters your next draw and buries a dead land or a second copy you did not want. The trick becomes low-cost to run precisely because it is never a total blank once you commit the mana. That is the whole idea behind bolting a library-manipulation clause onto a pump spell: it lowers the deckbuilding tax on a card whose ceiling is real but whose floor, historically, was a wasted turn.