Tropical Storm

An anti-air sweeper with a color-pie grudge stapled to the back end. The flying clause is well-trodden green territory: the color has swatted fliers since Alpha (Hurricane and its kin are part of the evergreen toolkit), and an X-scaling sweeper that punishes a committed air force is squarely on-mandate. The bonus damage to blue creatures is the tell, and what dates the card. That second clause encodes a grudge directly into the rules text, dealing extra to every blue creature whether or not it has flying, which means a grounded blue board still feels the sting. It comes from an era when designers were comfortable printing cards that punished a specific opponent's color rather than a specific board state. The scaling rewards spread: X buys damage to each flier and the blue bonus stacks on top, so the card is at its best against a wide enemy sky, and against blue it doubles as partial removal even without evasion present. The friction is breadth of relevance: against a green or red ground deck with no fliers and no blue, the card asks for X and delivers nothing, so its ceiling is a function of who sits across the table. Read as color-pie history, it shows green's anti-air mandate routed through a sorcery, carrying a rider that exists for no reason except to spite blue.