Shade of Trokair⁣ - Planar Chaos⁣ (Common)⁣ [18]

Shade of Trokair is a 1/2 creature for three mana that can be improved temporarily by paying one white mana to give it a +1/+1 boost until the end of your turn. You can also choose to suspend it for one white mana, which means you exile it with three time counters, and it won't enter the battlefield until those counters are removed, at which point you can cast it for free, and it will have haste, allowing it to attack or use abilities immediately. This card can be useful in strategies that value incremental creature buffs or surprise aggression, especially since it can come down swinging after a few turns of waiting. However, the downside is that if you choose to suspend it, you're delaying its entry onto the battlefield, and if your opponent has ways to disrupt your plans or remove it before it resolves, you might end up with little to show for your investment.