Desculpting Blast

Two-mana returns to hand have always been a tempo hedge: you spend a card to buy a turn, they recast, and the exchange nets you time rather than cards. The conditional rider is what changes the math here, and it keys entirely off combat. Catch a creature mid-swing and you don't just reset the clock; you leave a flying blocker behind, so the card-for-card bounce becomes card-neutral instead of a straight loss, and the tempo you gain is doubled. They lose the attacker, you gain a body that walls the very evasive threats bounce normally does nothing about. That timing window is the whole design axis. Cast it outside of combat, on a permanent that isn't attacking, and it's a plain, slightly-below-rate return-to-hand; cast it in response to a declared attack and it converts their aggression into your defense while keeping you level on cards. The Drone token is deliberately hobbled, able to block only fliers, which stops the card from doubling as a repeatable ground-army generator and ties the reward to the moment it was earned. It rewards holding the spell open and reading combat rather than firing it on curve, a subtler thing to ask of a blue instant than most bounce has ever asked.