Torrent Elemental

The attack trigger reads like a recurring one-sided Falter: tap every creature the defending player controls, then swing through with a 3/5 flier into an open board. What makes the design unusual is the second ability, which reads off neither the battlefield nor the graveyard but off exile, and is paid in black or green pips rather than blue. The split mana symbols are the tell: this is a blue body whose recursion engine lives entirely outside blue's color pie, conceived for a multicolor shell that can supply the off-color mana. The catch is that ordinary removal is the answer, not the problem the card solves. Destroy effects and damage send it to the graveyard, where the return clause cannot reach it and it sits dead; the ability only functions if the card is in exile, so the engine depends on getting it there yourself, through a self-exile effect or a graveyard-to-exile mechanic, or on an opponent's exile-based removal doing the work for you. Bounce merely resets a creature you would happily replay anyway. The body is modest, and the toughness only matters defensively until you start attacking. The real value is the loop: stage the card in exile, then keep paying the sorcery-speed off-color cost to return it tapped, untap, and convert each connection into a board-wide tapped liability for the defender. Everything else is apparatus built to ensure that alpha strike happens again from a zone most decks cannot easily police.