Thunderhead Squadron

A 3/4 flyer priced at six mana is a late-curve statistic, the kind of body that sits behind cheaper threats in an ordinary fair deck. The whole point is that it was never meant to be cast that way. Convoke drags the price forward: the more bodies you have on the ground, the earlier this evasive finisher arrives, so the swarm deck that would seem to want a six-drop least is the one that lands it turns ahead of schedule. The printed cost is set high on purpose because the discount is the intended line, not the exception; pay full freight and it feels overpriced, tap four or five creatures and it becomes a genuine tempo swing. The restriction that keeps the exchange fair is that convoke taps the same creatures that would otherwise be attacking, so the flyer replaces a ground assault rather than stacking on top of one: you trade this turn's board damage for a threat that closes from the air over the following turns. Read as a blue midrange creature it looks unremarkable, a slow evasive body with a discount stapled on. Read as a go-wide payoff, which is what it is, it turns a tapped-out token board into a finisher without asking the deck to warp around it.