Messenger Falcons

A flying creature that replaces itself the turn it lands belongs to a school of design that treats a creature as a spell with a body attached: the value is front-loaded into the enters trigger, and the 2/2 in the air is the residue you keep. The draw means the card is never a dead draw, and the evasion means it keeps nibbling long after the cantrip has resolved. What makes the build unusual is the green-or-blue hybrid pip, which lets the same card be cast natively in either of two allied pairs: a Selesnya deck pays , an Azorius deck pays , and neither has to reach outside its colors to do it. The card lives in the Bant shard but does not demand all three of its colors at once; it asks for white plus one of the other two, a far softer constraint than the Bant identity suggests. That flexibility is the design tax for an otherwise plain body. Nothing about the rate is exciting and nothing about it is bad. It is connective tissue: the kind of card that smooths a curve and keeps a hand functional without ever being the reason the game tips.