Tawnos's Wand

Read it as a 1994 design artifact and the logic comes into focus: colorless, repeatable evasion was barely charted territory, and the artifact-saturated design of its set leaned hard into the conceit that artifacts could simulate any color's tricks if you paid enough for the privilege. The power-2-or-less clamp is the giveaway. The card is built to push Ornithopters and the small ground-level beaters of the era past a stall, not to enable a finisher. That ceiling is also why it never escaped its moment. Once creatures got bigger and unblockable migrated to blue's keyword toolkit (and later to equipment that did the job for one mana up front), a wand that taxes six mana the turn it matters had nowhere to go. The instant-speed flexibility looks like an asset and isn't: you can hold the activation until the declare-attackers step, which is exactly the right window, but the effect still costs more than the attacker it greases, and one creature slipping through rarely repays the tempo. It survives as a flavor piece in the Urza-and-Tawnos artificer cycle, a snapshot of how cautiously Wizards once priced the ability to ignore a blocker, and a reminder that "colorless evasion granter" was once exotic enough to cost more than the creature receiving it.