Tzaangor Shaman

The connect-to-copy design puts the payoff on the far side of a swing: a flying 3/3 that, once it lands, turns your next instant or sorcery into two. What makes the ability sing is the timing hook. Combat damage doesn't hand you a copy on the spot; it arms a delayed effect that fires when you next cast an instant or sorcery that same turn, copying the spell as it goes on the stack. Because you can only deal that combat damage on your own turn, the whole engine lives inside a single turn's window: connect, then in your second main phase cast the spell you were holding, and the copy resolves with new targets of your choosing. Doubling a targeted removal spell, a bounce, a burn spell, or a draw effect all reads differently through that lens. The shaman rewards a hand built to hold a haymaker until the swing connects rather than a deck that simply casts on curve. Flying does the quiet structural work, making the connection reliable against ground-based boards without asking for evasion enablers. It sits in a lineage of spell-copy creatures alongside effects like Melek, Izzet Paragon, but where those double on cast unconditionally, this one prices its copy in combat damage: you have to earn the trigger in the red zone before you spend it in the second main phase.