Lofty Dreams

What convoke does to a nominal five-mana price tag is quietly aggressive: a board full of tapped bodies pays the freight, so the aura lands the same turn you flood the table rather than a turn behind it. Blue's flying-and-buff auras have always fought the two-for-one problem, where a removal spell answers both the enchantment and the creature at once, and this design does not fully escape it: point removal at the target while the aura is on the stack and the spell fizzles outright, drawing you nothing and burning both cards. The enter-the-battlefield draw only fires if the aura resolves, which makes the target-selection the real decision. What the cantrip does buy is insulation against the later removal spell, the one that answers the enchanted creature after the aura has already resolved: at that point you have replaced the card even if the body dies before it connects. The +2/+2 and flying are the boilerplate payload of the genre; the friction worth playing around is that convoke wants a wide board while the aura wants one durable target to sit on. Tap the expendable creatures to cast it, then bolt the buff onto the one likeliest to survive, and the card asks for real sequencing rather than a rote drop. It reads as a go-wide plan dressed as an evasion aura, turning the board a tempo deck already builds into a clock the ground stall cannot answer.