Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

A tutor that climbs a ladder rather than reaching the top in one motion. The verse counter is the whole architecture: each activation advances the search by exactly one mana value, so the first crack fetches a one-drop, the second a two-drop, and so on, with no way to skip a rung. That cadence is what balances an otherwise absurd ability (free creatures straight onto the battlefield, no payment beyond the activation), and it rewards a deck stocked with useful hits at every integer rather than a single bomb. The ability carries no timing restriction, so the natural rhythm is to crack it on an opponent's end step and again on your own turn, squeezing two rungs out of every cycle of untaps. That instant-speed access is also why untap effects become the accelerant: doubling activations in a turn is how the ladder turns from a value engine into a kill, and builds learned to lean on creatures that untap him or on mana that lets the counters pile faster than an opponent can answer the body. The 2/3 frame is incidental; nobody runs this for combat. What it offers is a deterministic, repeatable creature-tutor that assembles a chain of permanents in counter order, the kind of engine that converts a creature toolbox into a combo manifest if you know which rungs to fill.