Patrician Geist

Two abilities pulling in the same direction is what gives this card its shape. The anthem makes it a lord for a tribe that trades on evasion, turning a board of one-toughness Spirit tokens into a real clock. But it is the graveyard discount that reframes the card from a curve-filler into an engine piece: shaving a mana off each recast is exactly where an evasive spirit deck wants to live. This color's spirits lean on recursion mechanics that ask you to bring back cheap flying threats and instants from the yard rather than commit them all at once, and clipping that mana off each recasting compounds fast when the same body is also buffing everything that lands. The Knight in the type line is nearly vestigial; nobody builds around it. What makes the design cohere is that both halves reward the same play pattern of grinding a wide, cheap, recursive board rather than a single haymaker. The 2/2 flyer for is priced as a support piece, not a bomb, and that is honest: it wants a critical mass of Spirits and a graveyard worth casting from before either ability matters. Absent that, it is a plain evasive body with two lines of text waiting for a deck to arrive.