Faerie Formation

A 5/4 flyer for five mana is a fair enough body, but nobody runs this for the swing in the air; the pull is a recurring investment that turns surplus mana into board presence and a fresh card in the same beat. Each cycle spawns a 1/1 flyer first, then refills your hand, so a single activation both widens the front and keeps the cards flowing without any other pieces in play. The four-mana price on the ability is deliberately stiff: this is not a tempo threat but a long-game accumulator, one you only lean on once the early exchanges are behind you and your lands have nothing better to do. It belongs to the long blue tradition of creatures whose statline exists mostly to house a card-advantage engine, where the flyer is armor for the ability rather than a real combatant. Ignored across a few turns, it manufactures its own swarm and buries an opponent under bodies and draws at once; met with removal on the turn it lands, it was just a slightly oversized flyer that never got to spin up. That distance between neutralized-early and unchecked-late is its whole strategic axis.