Ornithopter of Paradise

Birds of Paradise gave the five-color mana dork its shape: turn one, tap for anything, and the deckbuilding gates swing open. This is that idea rebuilt in artifact colors, and the reconstruction reveals what green was quietly paying for with its casting cost. Both bodies fly and both fix into every color, but where the green version lands first and dies to a single ping or the smallest sweeper, this one arrives a turn later, casts from any deck for generic mana, and carries a second point of toughness. That toughness is the whole trade: a 0/2 shrugs off the burn and the one-toughness sweepers that wipe the classic dorks off the table, and it survives a one-power flier crashing back rather than dying in the exchange. The rest of the deal is deliberate. You surrender the turn-one acceleration and pay the extra mana in return for rainbow production that lives entirely outside green, colorless-castable in shells that could never touch a forest. The flying keeps earning after the fixing job is done, whether it chumps an evasive threat or shoulders a piece of equipment when the game asks the mana creature to carry more. What results is a fixer for anyone who wants Birds-style color access without committing to green: artifact-heavy builds, colorless commanders, and any strategy that needs to tap for five colors and would rather do it in metal than in leaves.