Ojutai's Summons

Rebound turns one payment into two installments, and this spell is the plainest illustration of the mechanic's central bargain: a 2/2 flyer now, and the option of another 2/2 flyer for free on your next upkeep, both bought with a single casting. That deferral is the entire design. You are not paying five mana for two Djinn Monks so much as buying a body this turn and holding a second one in reserve, the exiled card functioning as a hedge against a sweeper that clears the first. The rebound cast is a "may," so the second token is a choice rather than an inevitability: if the board has shifted, you can decline it, though in practice a free flyer rarely wants declining. The headline rate looks soft precisely because half the value hasn't arrived yet, and the delay is the feature rather than the cost: the second token drops before you've committed any mana to the following turn, freeing that turn's resources for something else. The token itself carries nothing beyond flying, so the whole spell leans on cadence over payload. The only decision it asks after resolution is whether to take the upkeep cast, and the answer is usually yes. It is a patience mechanic wearing a creature spell's clothing, an effect that rewards a deck happy to accrue pressure in even, predictable steps instead of spending a turn on one splashy threat.