Crazed Skirge

Flying and haste on a 2/2 for four mana describes a creature that does exactly one thing: it attacks the turn it lands, in the air, and then it dies to a stiff breeze. This is filler from an era when commons were rarely asked to do more than fill a curve and put a number in the red zone, and the body is sized so that the evasion never threatens to matter. The cost-to-impact ratio was unflattering even in 1998: four mana for two power that any blocker bigger than a Grizzly Bears trades down with, and no resilience past the swing. What the keyword pair gives you is reach, not a clock; the haste exists to make the flier relevant on the turn it arrives because it has no staying power to make it relevant later. The Phyrexian Imp typing is the most lasting thing about it, slotting the card into Urza's-block flavor more than any deck. Read it as a baseline against which later cheap evasive black creatures get measured, a reminder of how much rates have compressed since: a modern designer would print this same package at two mana and not blink.