Mystic Penitent

Threshold posed a pointed question to white aggro: would you fill your own graveyard for a payoff this cheap? Most white decks said no, and that resistance is exactly the design tension this card lives inside. Vigilance for a single white is already a clean attacker-defender, the sort of one-drop any white curve happily slots. The threshold clause then dangles a real upgrade: a 2/2 flier for , a rate that comfortably outruns what one mana usually buys. But the upgrade rides a clock the deck rarely owns. A stocked yard of seven is a steep ask for an aggressive shell, and reaching it means leaning on self-mill or discard that fast white was never built to run. So the body sits crosswise to its mechanic: white wants to flood the board and keep pressure up, while threshold wants attrition and a full graveyard. The toggle is fragile in the other direction, too. Once active, a single shuffle effect or a chunk of graveyard hate can drop the count back below the line and strip the flying mid-combat, turning the flier back into a ground-bound 1/1 in the middle of an attack. That instability is the honest price of the rate. The body asks a deck to treat its own discard pile as fuel rather than refuse, which is precisely the commitment white was least inclined to make.