Ornitharch

Two 1/1 fliers or a bloated body: this Archon poses the tribute question in its most symmetrical form, five power arriving either way but split across three attackers or fused into one. The math is a deliberate wash. What differs is the shape of the threat and where it breaks. Fed the counters, the 3/3 swells to a 5/5 flyer, a fast clock that a single removal spell erases along with all its power. Denied, the 3/3 lands escorted by two Bird tokens, three evasive bodies that no one answer collapses: kill the Archon and two fliers keep swinging, kill a Bird and the rest hold the air. The defender making the call has to weigh which failure state hurts them more, and the answer flips depending on whether they fear a concentrated beater or a wide aerial assault, while the caster simply attacks along whatever axis they were handed. That is tribute working as designed: the opponent gets a real decision, both branches tuned to resolve somewhere the controller can live with, so the vote only picks the form of the pressure, never whether it lands.