Spectral Procession

Three flying bodies for as little as three white mana, and the price slides up from there. Each pip is a separate negotiation: a heavy-white board pays and buys the trio at the floor, a splash deck pays six generic and treats the spell as effectively colorless, and everyone in between settles somewhere on the curve. That sliding scale is what made this a token-aggro and go-wide staple rather than a color-restricted curve-filler: the same generous output sold to decks of wildly different commitments to white, with each pilot setting the price the deck's mana could afford. The output rewards the structures those decks are already built on. Three separate fliers spread wide against single-target removal in a way one large body cannot, multiply under anthem effects, and provide three independent crew or convoke contributors rather than one. The flexible-cost lever was an early and clean way to widen a card's audience without changing what it produced: white got to offer one of its most efficient token rates to anyone who could pay, and let each deck's commitment to the color decide the discount.