Skybox Ferry

Fixed threats have always carried a hidden tax: a five-drop that clogs the opening hand loses games sitting dead while the board resolves without it. Cycling pays that tax off. When the 4/4 flier matters, you spend five mana and tap two power to crew it; when the board is too slow or too clogged to spare a body, you pitch it for two and dig toward something live. That two-sided nature lets a five-mana body earn a slot in decks that would never otherwise run a threat this expensive: the floor matches any cheap cantrip, and the ceiling is a recurring evasive attacker that costs no cards to redeploy after each crew. Flying plus crew 2 is a trivial requirement to meet, and the artifact type means the Vehicle sits inert as a noncreature permanent between combats, ducking most creature-targeted sweepers while it waits for a turn to attack. None of the three pieces is striking in isolation; the design interest lives in how cheaply they stack, and in the way the card's best-case and worst-case outcomes share the same slot. It demands nothing of a color identity and nothing of a hand that has better things to be doing, which is precisely what an expensive threat needs if it wants a built-in exit.