Scout the City

The trick here is packaging a matchup-specific answer into a mode you would run regardless. Bring Down is Plummet by another name: destroy target creature with flying, the evergreen shape green has used to punish evasion since the earliest days of the color's answer suite. On its own that effect is a liability, dead against any board that keeps to the ground. Look Around is the fix. It bolts a universally castable value mode onto the same card: mill three, take a permanent from among them, gain three life. The self-mill is incidental rather than a resource being farmed; the point of the mode is the permanent-to-hand rider, which filters toward lands and threats while the three life quietly pays down the tempo cost of digging at two mana. Because the fallback mode is always live, the card never sits stranded when the opponent has nothing to shoot down. You cast Look Around, take your card and your life, and move on. Modal removal built this way has always solved the oldest problem with narrow answers: not that the answer is weak, but that it turns up when the target never does. Fold the answer into a smoothing spell and the dead draws disappear. Neither half is loud, and neither is meant to be. The design is about never having to regret the slot, whichever half the board asks for.