Riftmarked Knight

Suspend usually buys you a discount: pay early, wait, eventually cast the same spell for less. Here the patient route does something stranger. Once the last time counter is removed, the suspend trigger drops a second body beside the Knight you cast: alongside the white Rebel Knight with flanking and protection from black comes a 2/2 black Knight with haste, flanking, and protection from white. One card, paid the slow way, assembles both sides of a black-white mirror at once. The flanking blade is identical on each; the protection runs the opposite direction, so the two Knights physically cannot block one another. That inversion is the whole point: it asks what flanking, a combat keyword long married to red and white, looks like rebuilt in black, the product of an early-era design wave that deliberately rotated mechanics around the wheel into colors that never carried them. Both halves swing immediately, too. Suspend grants haste to the creature it casts, and the token enters with haste printed on it, so the entire pair can attack the turn they arrive. Committing the mana early and then waiting three full turns is a genuine cost, no question. The return is not a cheaper Knight but a doubled board: a 2/2 in your colors and a 2/2 in the enemy's, neither able to stop the other, both ready to attack.