Searchlight Companion

Three mana buys two bodies split across the board: an evasive 1/1 flier and a grounded 1/1 Spirit that shares nothing with it but its size. That split is where the value lives. This is a two-for-one measured in the crudest currency there is, raw creature count, and it distributes that count so half survives the loss of the other half. A single 1/1 flier at this rate would be forgettable; the trailing token is what turns the piece into fodder for strategies that tally bodies rather than weigh them: blink loops that recur the Drone for more Spirits, sacrifice engines, and any trigger that cares about creatures entering the battlefield. Note the seam, though: only the Drone itself is an artifact, so effects keyed to an artifact entering see one body, not two, and the Spirit is a plain colorless creature that counts nowhere near as widely as its parent. Being colorless and artifact-typed lets the Drone drop into any shell without a color pledge, the unglamorous enabler work that keeps go-wide and token-count decks fed. Nothing about the arithmetic is meant to impress on its own, and it was never engineered to. The flying belongs to the Drone, the nontoken creature you cast, so the piece the opponent sees coming in the air is the one that sticks around, while the Spirit it leaves behind sits on the ground as spare parts.