Candlegrove Witch
The reward is small and the constraint is where all the interest lives. What this two-mana body asks for is a battlefield of mismatched power values: not a row of matched stat lines but a spread of distinct bodies, a 1/1 next to a 2/2 next to something bigger, whatever the numbers happen to land on. That cuts against white's deepest instinct, which is to go wide with copies of the same creature and swing as a unit. Here, redundancy actively works against you; variety is the price of the flying. You do not pay more mana for the evasion, you pay by agreeing to run a creature base that stays deliberately uneven, and that trade is the entire mechanical thesis this card was built to demonstrate. The flying arrives at the start of your combat and expires with the turn, which makes this a proactive attacker rather than a defensive body: it wants the board shaped correctly before it ever commits to the air, and it never helps you block. As a payoff it is modest, but it is honest about what it is teaching, which is that white can be asked to value difference over sameness, to care about power numbers it would otherwise treat as interchangeable. The friction is all in deckbuilding, and that placement is exactly the point.
