Vassal Soul

The hybrid pips are the entire pitch. A 2/2 flier for three is filler by any other measure, but the in the cost means either color can pay the whole tab, and that flexibility is doing structural work the body never could. This is guild-aligned design from a school of two-color sets that wanted cards which belonged to a pair without demanding both halves up front: a manabase short in one color still casts this on curve, because the deck's land choices, not its theme, decide which side of the pair foots the bill. The hybrid symbols also let it lean into anything counting color identity from both directions, since it registers as a white permanent and a blue permanent for whatever cares. None of that changes what arrives on the table: a vanilla evasive three-drop that trades with most early fliers and chips for two in the air. The combat math is settled the moment it resolves; everything interesting about the card happens before it does, in the question of which color pays for it. The design exists so the mana, not the archetype, names which color built it.