Rory Williams

You cast a two-drop and get a Clue, then wait three turns for the creature. That inversion is the entire design: the moment this spell leaves your hand, its named ability exiles it with three time counters and grants suspend, so the 3/3 with first strike and lifelink you paid for is not the card you get this turn. What arrives now is the Investigate trigger, firing on cast from anywhere other than exile, which means you are not spending for a blank board: you get a Clue immediately and a body on a timer, back-loaded to your third upkeep when the last counter comes off. That is a genuinely unusual trade, front-loading the card advantage and paying out the creature on delay, and it turns a straightforward Azorius beater into a resource you sequence around rather than deploy on curve. The Partner with Amy Pond line is the other half of the math: the two are built to be tutored to each other, so the suspend delay on this side becomes tolerable when the pair is the engine rather than a lone two-drop. The one escape from the countdown is casting it from exile, which the ability specifically excludes from its own trigger, so a suspended copy comes down clean the second time. Read cold, first strike and lifelink on a 3/3 is a fine two-drop; read as written, it is a card that refuses to be one, insisting on now-and-later with a Clue as interest on the loan.