Thriving Ibex

The two energy this Goat hands you on arrival are exactly the two it wants back on the attack, which makes it the closest energy ever got to a self-contained loop stapled into a single low-rarity body. Most energy cards split producer and spender across separate slots; this one carries both halves on a 2/4 frame. The wrinkle is arithmetic: the two counters it generates fund exactly one growth trigger, and after that the pump goes quiet unless your reserve is being topped up elsewhere. Crucially, the energy it produces is not earmarked for its own ability. It flows into your general pool like any other, spendable on any sink you happen to be running, which cuts both ways: a hungry deck can drain that reserve before the Ibex ever swings, while a deck built to keep the pool full turns this into a threat that gains a counter every combat. The 2/4 body is the part that makes the design cohere: sturdy enough to hold the ground while the reserve builds, and once the first counter lands, a 3/5 that wins the trades a 2/4 would lose. Read as teaching material, it makes energy's give-and-take legible across a single attack step rather than across a multi-card engine, a gentler way into the mechanic than most of its contemporaries offered.