Eldrazi Skyspawner

Three mana buys two bodies and a stored unit of mana, all wrapped around evasion. The 2/1 flyer applies immediate pressure while the 1/1 Eldrazi Scion walking in behind it carries the deferred value: that sacrifice-for- clause is what separates the Scion from a plain chump token. It banks toward a colorless payoff, blocks once, or feeds whatever wants to eat a creature, and the timing of that conversion belongs to the controller on whichever turn it matters. The card front-loads an evasive attacker and a deferred mana source onto a single entry trigger, then lets you decide later whether the second body lives as a blocker or dies into ramp. Devoid keeps everything colorless despite the blue pip, which reads less as a board-state concern than as connective tissue for the era's colorless-matters payoffs, the rare design where a creature's lack of color is itself the relevant attribute. What makes the engine tick is that the value is split and staggered: pressure now, optional acceleration banked for whenever the curve needs a push. That deferral is the whole hook. A flyer that also leaves a fungible resource on the table asks for less commitment than a creature that has to be all-in on combat, and the Scion's three modes mean the card rarely sits dead in a position where the rest of the hand wants something else.