Ettercap // Web Shot
Green's answer to flying has always been a compromise: the color that most wants to be a curve of creatures kept its anti-air on situational instants and bows that rot in hand when the opponent stays on the ground. This card splits that dilemma down the middle. Web Shot is a clean destroy against anything with flying, priced like a reasonable green instant and narrow enough to stay honest (it touches only fliers and nothing else). Cast it, and the card doesn't disappear: it tucks into exile so the same slot later becomes a 2/5 with reach, a body that walls the ground and still contests the air it was just aiming at. That is the elegance. The removal half is conditional, but the exile clause guarantees the card is never a blank, so the usual tax of holding a dead answer never gets paid. You fire the spell when a flier demands it and bank the beast for a turn the board wants a blocker, or you skip the front half entirely and drop the Spider straight when nothing is flying. Reach on the creature is the quiet thematic tie: the spider that spins Web Shot is the same one that snags fliers out of the sky in combat. The whole template exists to let green cover a color-pie gap without carrying a conditional card that might never resolve.
