Treasonous Ogre

Three life for one red mana, untapped, unsummoning-sick, repeatable to the floor of your life total: that is Dark Ritual logic converted from a one-shot into a sustained faucet, with your own life bar as the reservoir. The card exists for decks that treat life as spendable currency rather than a clock to defend: storm shells, big-mana ramp toward one explosive turn, any plan that wants to empty a hand before the arithmetic catches up. Dethrone is almost beside the point, a small attacking rider grafted onto a body that would rather sit back and print mana, and the 2/3 frame does little more than survive a stray ping while it works. The tension is baked in: every activation both accelerates the plan and shortens the runway, so the source is only as safe as the speed of whatever it fuels. Build around it and the life payment reads as a feature, a mono-red mana engine that needs no other permanents on the board and scales purely with how much of your life total you are willing to burn. Drop it into a fair, grinding game and it is a fragile Ogre that sometimes closes the gap on your behalf faster than the opponent could.