Spiritual Visit

Splice was built to reward decks that flood themselves with Arcane spells, and this is the version of that bargain pitched at the cheapest possible point. Cast it straight and you get a one-mana token maker, modest and easily forgotten. Reveal it from hand as you cast another Arcane spell, though, and for a single additional white mana it bolts a 1/1 Spirit onto whatever you were already doing: a removal spell or a combat trick becomes that same effect plus a body left behind. That is the whole pitch of splice: you pay for an effect twice, but you only spend a card once, and the spell you splice onto carries the token in for free. The Spirit token is no accident of color choice, since the Spirit subtheme it feeds wants exactly these expendable bodies to chump, to swarm, and to trigger whatever cares about creatures entering. The design tension splice resolves is card economy: a deck stuffed with conditional one-ofs runs out of gas, but a deck that grafts those one-ofs onto its bread-and-butter spells never wastes a slot. This card sits at the floor of that curve, the smallest reusable rider the mechanic offers, and it teaches splice in miniature: the value is never in the base spell, it is in the seam where two effects meet.