Inkling Mascot

Repartee is a spells-matter payoff built on a narrow trigger: the spell has to target a creature, which quietly rewards the kind of deck already leaning on combat tricks, targeted removal, and pump. That constraint keeps the evasion honest, since the flying only shows up on turns you were pointing a spell at a creature anyway, folding the reach into a play you already wanted to make. The Surveil 1 is bolted onto the same trigger rather than standing alone: every time you fire off a creature-targeting instant or sorcery, you both send this into the air and dig one card deep, so the two effects arrive as a package and the digging accelerates when the deck is doing what it wants. That filtering does double duty in white-black, where it stocks a graveyard for the recursion and reanimation those colors reach for while smoothing toward the next enabler. A two-mana body that turns into a clock the moment you aim removal at a blocker is a tidy piece of tempo, contingent on building around the caster's spellwork rather than the creature itself. The Inkling Cat framing places it in the ink-and-magic corner of an academic setting, where a familiar riding along on its owner's spells is precisely the register the design is reaching for.