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Blue's claim on flying as a color-pie staple gets its cleanest expression here: an instant-speed evasion grant that exists less as a competitive tool than as a baseline measurement. Every flying-grant printed since carries this rate as its hidden floor, with additional riders (a +1/+1 boost, an untap, a draw trigger, a permanent enchantment) earning their extra mana relative to the naked effect. The instant speed is the entire point. A sorcery-speed version would be a build-around; at instant speed, it is a combat trick, a reach answer to a ground stall, and an evasion enabler for a lethal swing, all from the same one-mana hold-up. The design also quietly encodes a color-pie boundary that has held for thirty years: green and white can grant reach or pump fliers situationally, red gets temporary flying on its own creatures occasionally, but the unconditional "any creature, now, flying" grant has stayed in blue. The card itself is a relic; the template it established is everywhere.