Vulshok Sorcerer

The pinger recolored into red, and the trade buys exactly one thing blue never offered in this slot: relevance the turn it lands. Prodigal Sorcerer, the original Tim, did this for with no haste, asking you to wait a turn before the tap ability came online. The red version costs the same three mana but pushes the colored requirement to two red pips, and in exchange for that commitment it arrives ready to work. Haste is the real wrinkle, and it cuts deeper than the body: because haste strips summoning sickness wholesale, the tap ability is live the instant the creature resolves. It can ping something for one, or swing for one, before the opponent has even untapped. The 1/1 frame is the honest cost of that immediacy. It dies to everything, which is precisely the balance: a recurring source of damage that picks off one-toughness creatures and chips away at life totals across many turns has to be the easiest thing on the board to kill, or the slow attrition would come for free. Red usually spends a card per point of reach; the sorcerer spends a creature once and threatens to do it forever, if it survives. That is the wager every pinger has posed since blue printed the first one: can you protect a fragile body long enough for a trickle of damage to add up to a win.