Giant Dustwasp

The pitch is a trade of certainty for tempo. Pay the full five mana and you get a fragile flier with no immediate impact; pay the suspend cost up front and you commit two mana early for a body that lands four upkeeps later with haste, no further mana required. That deferred clock is the whole calculation: the suspend route is cheaper in total and frees your mid-game mana, but it telegraphs the arrival and gives the opponent four turns to set up before the bug ever swings. The haste granted on resolution is what keeps the suspend line honest as a plan rather than a liability: as the counters run out, the flier connects the same turn it appears, so the patience pays a dividend the hardcast version never offers. It is a clean teaching example of how suspend reframes a card's mana into a question of when rather than how much: the printed cost is a fallback, and the interesting decision is whether to bank the body early and ride out the counters. The stat line is modest enough that the mechanic, not the size of the flier, is the reason to run it; suspend here is a tempo lever bolted to evasive damage, the kind of design that rewards committing to a clock several turns before you cash it in.