Atraxi Warden

The suspend line is where the design earns its keep. Cast from hand at six mana, this is a fine flying body with a conditional exile stapled to it: the enter trigger only reaches a tapped creature, which turns it into a punish for attackers and tappers rather than open-ended removal. But suspending it for rewrites the tempo math entirely. You pay two mana on an early turn, tick down five upkeeps, and when the last time counter falls the creature arrives with haste, exiling a tapped blocker or attacker the moment it lands. The exile-and-haste combination is what makes the suspend cost worth eating five turns of setup: you are not just deploying a 6/6 flier ahead of schedule, you are removing whatever tapped creature stands in its way and swinging the same turn it resolves. The five-counter delay is the tax that pays for that discount, and it demands you commit to a plan long before the payoff arrives. It is a card built around patience rewarded with a burst of tempo, the enter trigger converting a slow-rolled investment into a board-swing on the turn it finally connects. The conditional target keeps the removal honest: against a defensive opponent who leaves creatures untapped, the exile does nothing, and the card falls back on being a large evasive threat.