These are the quandaries that assail you when playing Slay the Spire, an adventure and roleplaying digital card game set in the titular mysterious vertically-inclined structure
If you don't too bad so sad you lose you get nothing but a mitt full of cardboard. Ok maybe that text is a bit much, but you get it
Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if its an instant or sorcery card
It has convoke, which can be used to pay towards the X in its cost, and its ability reads that when Wildfire Awakener enters the battlefield, create X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to target player
Youll also keep the threat of exerting open too
Articuno, the elegant ice/flying-type Pokemon, was a strong card in the TCG and holds high value even today