Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent

A pump spell you get to store on the battlefield, disguised as a 1/1: that is the trade this two-drop offers. It arrives as a double striker and, while it stays prepared, it also holds a two-mana sorcery that grants +1/+0 and double strike to any creature. The wrinkle is what spending the copy actually costs. You do not lose the creature; the 1/1 double striker stays put. What you spend is the prepared state itself, the banked option to fire off that pump later. So the choice is never creature-or-spell but now-or-later: cash the copy in this turn to double an evasive threat, or leave the permanent prepared and keep the pump in reserve. That reserve sits exposed in a way a fused split card never is. A split card waits safely in hand; here the second mode is a 1/1 on the board, where a single removal spell strips both the body and the banked spell at once. Carrying the option means carrying that risk. Double strike is the thread through both halves: the creature punishes an open lane by itself, and Twofold Intent, being a sorcery, turns an oversized or evasive attacker into a doubled clock during your own main phase before combat. The card asks you to read which half the board in front of you needs, and to accept that the prepared state is a resource you get to spend exactly once.