Pause for Reflection

The Fog effect has always been priced at one or two mana because that is all it is worth: a one-turn pardon on combat damage, dead the moment the crisis it papered over passes and the game grinds on. This one costs more on paper, then hands you a way to pay almost none of it. Convoke turns the green Fog into a spell your blocking creatures can fund, which is the quiet joke of the design: the same army that just declared blocks can tap to buy the turn where none of them die. In a board state with bodies to spare, the green-mana floor collapses toward zero, and a card that reads as overcosted becomes a near-free reset on a doomed combat step. That inversion is the whole reason convoke sits on a defensive trick rather than a beater. Most convoke cards reward going wide by making the wide board cast something cheaper to push the attack further; this one runs the logic backward, using the width to undo combat entirely. The cost it can dodge is exactly the cost a Fog could never justify, so the keyword is not a discount here so much as a license to print a more expensive damage-prevention spell that the deck most likely to want it can almost always afford.