Esper Cormorants

The whole payload is in the type line, not the rules box. A 3/3 flyer for four mana is a French-vanilla body, decent but unremarkable, and the only thing the design reaches for is that the card type reads Artifact Creature instead of plain Creature. This is a Bird built to live inside an environment where the three central colors all leaned into a metal identity, so a white-blue flyer gets tagged as an artifact with no mechanical reason of its own to carry it: no affinity discount, no equip hook, no artifact-matters trigger on the card itself. Its job is to be a body that counts as an artifact, padding the density a deck needs for affinity-style or artifact-matters payoffs printed elsewhere, while still presenting as a clean evasive beater. That makes it a tidy specimen of how a creative-driven artifact theme manufactures creatures whose entire synergy contribution is the type line, with the rules box left nearly empty so the count, not the card, does the work. Strip away the artifact-rewarding shell and it reads as exactly what the stats promise: a serviceable three-power flyer at four mana, common-rarity curve filler that asks nothing of the deck around it.