Soratami Rainshaper

A protection trick that costs more than it looks. The premise is sound: a 2/1 flier that can shrug off a kill spell on the turn it slips through, keeping your evasive Wizard alive when a single point of removal would otherwise blow up an attack. The catch is the price tag stapled to the activation. Returning a land to hand is the Moonfolk tax, a shared payment threaded through this family of designs, and it drains tempo at the exact moment an aggressive flying offense can least absorb it: you are spending three mana and undoing a land drop to protect a creature you were already racing with. Shroud compounds the awkwardness, since it bars your own combat tricks and Auras from the same body it shields, so the ability protects against removal only by foreclosing your own enhancements. What survives all of that is a fine evasive beater with a ceiling you rarely reach, because the mana and the land are almost never both free at once. It belongs to an era experiment in tying activated abilities to bouncing your own lands, a cost philosophy that taxed every effect against the very board development an aggressive blue flyers deck wanted to build.