View from Above

Granting evasion at instant speed is among the oldest blue combat tools, and the rate here is unremarkable on its own: two mana to push one creature over a clogged ground for a turn. The white-permanent clause is what changes the math. Control a single white permanent and the spell bounces back to hand after resolving, turning a one-shot trick into a recurring evasion source you can replay every turn. That conditional is the reason the card lives in a two-color shell rather than mono-blue: it asks you to splash white not for a powerful payoff but for free recursion, where each cast still costs the mana but never costs you the card. The result is a small but real engine piece in builds with reliable repeated combat damage, since a creature that connects once tends to connect again, and a trick you never run out of changes how you tempo through a board stall. Outside an Azorius shell the return clause is dead text, and the card collapses back into a forgettable flying grant; the line that elevates it is also the line that strands it everywhere else.