Tanufel Rimespeaker

The threshold is the tell. Payoffs that reward drawing cards usually key off the cheap end of the curve, because that is where the volume lives: cantrips, one-mana disruption, the spells you cast in bunches. This one inverts the incentive, drawing only off spells that cost four or more, which quietly asks you to build a deck of expensive spells and then rewards each one with the fuel to keep casting them. That is a harder ask than it looks. A control shell stocked with heavy removal, sweepers, and finishers turns each of those cards into a two-for-one, but the body has to survive to collect. A 2/4 is the compromise that pays for the engine: durable enough to eat a burn spell or an early attacker and keep the draws flowing, small enough that it never threatens to close a game on its own. The tension sits entirely in that gap between protecting the engine and asking the engine to earn its keep, and the four-mana floor is what forces the deck to commit to its shape. You cannot slot this into an aggressive build and coast, because aggressive decks do not cast enough qualifying spells to trigger it. It is a reward tuned for one specific curve, and it refuses to work on any other.