Smoke Teller
A green Shaman whose only printed ability taps blue mana is a small joke about deckbuilding intent: the 2/2 body is fully functional in mono-green, but the text that gives the card its identity is dead unless you splash. That deliberate mismatch marks the card as a signal toward a two-color build rather than a self-contained threat. What the ability buys is pure information: peeking under a face-down creature tells you whether the 2/2 staring across the board is a bluff or a monster waiting to flip, and that knowledge reshapes every combat decision before it happens. The intelligence is private, too. Looking reveals nothing to anyone else, so the read is yours alone to act on. It is an unusual design where the relevant text touches the board not at all, a counter-intelligence tool wearing the frame of a generic two-power beater. The narrowness is the whole point: in an environment thick with face-down creatures, reading hidden information is a genuine edge, and the moment that mechanic leaves the table the card reverts to a plain attacker with a line of text that does nothing.
