Whip Sergeant

Repeatable haste-granting from a permanent, sold one creature at a time. The single-red activation is the whole pitch: for one mana you wake any creature, your own freshly cast threat or a borrowed body, and send it into combat the turn it lands. That smooths the dead turn where a new creature sits summoning-sick while the opponent stabilizes, which is exactly what a red deck deploying late and swinging immediately wants. The body, a 2/1, is what keeps the engine honest: a permanent that hands out haste over and over would be oppressive on a resilient frame, so the effect is bolted to a creature that folds the moment someone aims removal at it. Because each activation costs and hits one target, the math favors a single large threat you most want to attack with right now rather than a full board you would have to pay for body by body; the per-target tax is exactly what holds the card back from being a free team-wide enabler. That structural role (haste from a permanent you can fire again next turn) is an ancestor to the free, untaxed haste anthems that later red payoffs hand out for nothing. Here the per-activation cost does the limiting work those later cards skip, and the Sergeant can even target itself to swing the turn it lands.