Knight of the Skyward Eye

A white two-drop that hides its real intent in an off-color activation. The 2/2 starts your curve as a plain beater, but the design idea lives in the pump: a creature that asks you to splash a second color not for an enters-the-battlefield trigger or a one-shot effect, but for a repeatable mana outlet that converts flooded draws back into pressure. It is a gold-aligned design wearing a mono-white shell; nothing about the cast cost commits you, but every activation does. The cost is steep on purpose, and the once-per-turn clause keeps it from stacking across a single combat step, so the math only tilts your way when you have green mana idle and no better sink for it. That pins the card to a specific board state: the grind where the bodies have stalled and you need them to scale rather than trade. The tension is structural. A white creature that wants green mana commits you to two colors for a payoff a faster draw would never want to have paid for, and the green requirement is the brake that stops the white half from being a free splash. The whole thing answers an old problem for small creatures: what to do with the lands you keep drawing when you wanted gas instead.