Skittering Cicada

A payoff built for a deck that lives on colorless spells, and the whole design is a single question about what happens when your Eldrazi and artifacts stop being sorceries. Its own flash is the setup; granting flash to every colorless spell you cast is the machine. Suddenly the twelve-mana bomb, the mana rock, the utility artifact all deploy at instant speed, and each one you cast pumps this Insect by its full mana value with trample stapled on. Cast something big and the 2/2 becomes a threat that punches through blockers in a single combat step; the boost scales with exactly the kind of expensive colorless spells a dedicated shell wants to be running anyway. The elegance is in how narrow the trigger is: it does nothing for your colored spells, so it only rewards a deck genuinely committed to colorless as a strategy rather than a splash. The flash-granting clause is the part that changes how a game is played, letting you hold up counterspell-shaped patience while sitting on a hand of Eldrazi ready to slam down the instant an opening appears. Left alone, it flashes in as an unremarkable 2/2 with nothing to feed on; as the keystone of a colorless-matters build it converts a pile of expensive artifacts and colorless monsters into an evasive clock and an instant-speed toolbox.