Torch Courier

Haste-granting is a niche utility effect, but folding it into a sacrifice clause makes the same one-mana body pull double duty. It can attack immediately, and once that job is spent it converts itself into haste for something larger: a freshly cast finisher, a reanimated threat, a fattened token that would otherwise idle for a turn. The sacrifice is the hinge. This is rarely a dead draw where surprise damage matters, because it either chips a point off the top or accelerates the part of the plan meant to close. That disposability also lines it up with Goblin and aristocrat infrastructure, where a one-drop that wants to die is a resource before it is a haste enabler: fuel for a sacrifice outlet first, an accelerant second, a beater third. The window it opens is the real product. Because you can crack it at instant speed on your own main phase, you resolve a threat and then decide, with full information, whether to send it in the same turn rather than committing to that line prematurely. Most haste payoffs revolve around a single standing enabler you protect and keep on the board; this one is built to be cashed in, so it suits builds that would rather spend a card than babysit one.