Groundling Pouncer

A pump-and-fly button gated behind a single condition: it switches on only when an opponent fields a flier of their own to challenge. That conditional is the whole conceit. The hybrid mana symbol lets the card slot into green, blue, or both, and the activation cost asks for that same hybrid mana again, so it pays its own way regardless of which half of its identity you build around. The activated ability turns a 2/1 ground body into a 3/4 flier that can ambush something in the air or push through over a board stall, but the moment the opposing skies are clear, its ability goes dormant and it plays as a plain two-drop. That asymmetry is the tension the design resolves: it hands green (a color historically shut out of the air) a way to interact with fliers without simply granting it evasion outright, since the ability is dead against a grounded opponent. It is faerie tribal flavor wearing a defensive coat, a creature built to answer the very keyword its type line advertises. The +1/+3 is tuned to win exchanges rather than races: enough toughness to survive the block, modest power to make the trade favorable, and a once-per-turn clamp so it cannot repeatedly pump within a single turn. A piece of conditional design from an era fond of rewarding players who read the opposing board before committing their mana.