Starnheim Courser

The cost-reducer-on-a-body is a recurring white answer to a specific problem: artifact and enchantment decks want to churn out permanents faster, but a naked mana-rock reducer sits inert on the board and dies to nothing. Stapling the discount to a 2/2 flyer resolves both complaints at once. The Pegasus attacks and blocks while the reduction ticks along in the background, so the card is never a total blank when the enchantment engine stalls. The reduction itself is broad in a way that matters: it hits both artifact and enchantment spells, slotting into Auras, equipment, artifact-matters shells, and constellation builds without discriminating. It stacks with other copies, too, so a board of these compounds the discount rather than redundantly overlapping. Flying keeps the body relevant in the air rather than trading into the ground stall these decks tend to create, and evasion on a support piece lets it close a game the permanents have already ground to a halt. Nothing here is flashy, and the rate is deliberately modest for what a dedicated cost-reducer can do: the discount only pays off if you are actually casting the permanents it wants you to cast, which is the premise you accept when you build around it. One copy is a rounding error; the reduction rewards a shell that leans on it, spell after spell after spell.