Out of the Way

A bounce-plus-cantrip that hides a color-hate mechanic inside its cost line. Cast at four mana, it is a serviceable tempo play: return a nonland permanent, replace itself, move on. The wrinkle is the discount, which only fires against green permanents and drops the card to a two-mana disruption spell priced like a cheap counter. This is a design that lets blue tax a single opponent color without printing something so narrow it becomes a dead draw: against a green board it is cheap, sharp interaction, and against everything else it stays castable at the honest rate. That asymmetry is where the cost reduction earns its keep. It shifts what the card is depending on the table, so the same instant reads as flexible utility in one matchup and as a pointed hoser in another. Blue has a long history of conditional bounce that cares about the target (Repeal scales to mana value, Aether Gust punishes a specific color pair), and this belongs to that lineage of answers that stay playable by folding their hate into an otherwise generic effect rather than gating the whole card behind a condition.