Infiltrator il-Kor

Shadow is one of the cleanest pieces of evasion the game ever printed: a creature with it cannot be blocked except by other shadow creatures, and almost nothing has shadow, so in practice this 3/1 connects every turn the board does not contain a mirror. The body is fragile by design, one toughness that any incidental ping erases, but it does not need to survive combat to do its job, only to keep landing damage and whatever it carries with it. Suspend is the half that makes the rate honest. Paying to exile it with two time counters is cheaper than the five it costs from hand, and the haste granted on release means the turn it resolves it is already attacking. The trade is information and tempo: the suspend cost commits early and telegraphs the threat two turns out, while the hardcast keeps the option open to deploy it later with mana up for something else. The two abilities pull in the same direction, which is unusual. Most evasive beaters demand protection once they land; here the only real decision is when to arrive, after which the swing is guaranteed. It is the archetypal aura-and-equipment carrier in shadow's brief design history, a guaranteed point of contact that combat math cannot touch, sized so that it threatens to end games quickly without ever being safe to leave on defense.