Towashi Guide-Bot

The activated draw begins at and a tap, an absurd price for a single card, and that is the whole conceit: the number is meant to erode before you ever pay it. The enters-the-battlefield trigger seeds the discount, planting a counter on a creature you control so the bot arrives having already cut its first activation by one. From there it rewards a specific texture of board, not raw creature count but how many of your creatures are modified at the exact instant you activate: a counter here, an Equipment attached there, an Aura or two. The reduction is a snapshot, not a stored total. It reads whatever is modified right now and prices the activation accordingly, which means an Equipment moved off a creature stops helping the moment it leaves. When the discount runs deep, the ability being activatable at instant speed lets you hold the draw as an end-of-turn play rather than a sorcery-locked commitment, but that flexibility is a consequence of the ability's ordinary nature, not a special clause. This is a cost-reducer wearing the clothes of a draw rock, part of a design tradition that asks you to build the board first and cash in later. The 2/1 frame is deliberately expendable; this is not a beater but a tax collector on a board you were assembling anyway, and its ceiling is entirely a function of how modified your creatures happen to be when you reach for it.