Hired Blade

Flash is the whole reason this card exists, and it rewrites what a 3/2 for means when the rest of the table is doing removal math. A vanilla three-drop is a body opponents can plan around at sorcery speed: they know when it lands, they know what it can block, they price their answers accordingly. Flash strips that predictability away. Held up at the end of an opponent's turn, this is a blocker that arrives after attackers are declared and committed, ambushing a 2/2 that thought it was getting in unopposed. Cast in response to a removal spell it dodges nothing, but sprung as a surprise it forces an opponent to spend a card answering a creature they never saw coming. The 3/2 body is a shade under what a plain three-drop offers, and the flash keyword is what you buy with that shortfall. This is a common-rarity role-player whose job is unglamorous: giving a black aggro or tempo shell a reactive creature that doubles as a beater, one small lever in the long-running tension between committing to the board and keeping mana open for answers. Flash on a below-rate body is one of black's oldest ways to blur that line, and this is a cheap, no-frills instance of it.