Sandskitter Outrider

A 2/1 for four mana that never intends to stay a 2/1: the endure choice reroutes the entire payoff. Send both counters onto the body and it becomes a 4/3 with menace, a real clock that cheap single-blocker defenses cannot afford to stop. Choose the token instead and you split into a 2/1 alongside a 2/2 white Spirit, four power spread across two frames that one spot-removal spell can only half-answer. That fork is the design: a creature that reads the board at trigger resolution and decides whether it wants resilience or reach. The timing is what makes the choice real. Because the fork happens when the endure trigger settles rather than when the spell is cast, an opponent holding up interaction is telling you to split, and an opponent who lets it resolve is telling you to grow. It answers an old complaint about enters-the-battlefield value, that the creature eats a removal spell before its trigger has done anything, by relocating the payoff onto the trigger and then giving that trigger its own hedge against removal. The mechanism hands the sacrifice-and-token color something it rarely gets this cheaply: stats banked in a shape a single kill spell cannot fully unwind. The rate is modest and the card will never headline anything, but the token mode gives go-wide and aristocrat plans a body to spend without surrendering the whole investment.