Hole filling, I chose Divination, and random generator gave me Hurricane. After toying with it for a little while, I came up with this... which is a card that I like, but... umm... it requires a healthy amount of flying creatures in the file to be runnable. I worked hard to find another way to do this... I really don't like giving up on a mashup. Then it occurred to me that if this happened in Workbench, I would make the card, assume it wouldn't find a home, but stay hopeful that it would pop in a later set, and keep going. So I put it in workbench instead of alpha... and will have to do another random card tomorrow. Seems like a compromise.

Oh, and in case you're wondering why there's a bit of weirdness with the card restricting the amount of mana you need to pay... it's much better than the other way: "Draw X cards. X cannot exceed the amount of flying creatures you control." Could you imagine someone destroying your creature in response? Terrible.

Would "draw a card for each flying creature you control" be sufficiently mash-up-y? In the cases where I have 4+ flying creatures, the spell is pretty swingy already, I'm not sure giving it to me for 2U would make that much difference?

A bit like Airborne Aid or Distant Melody. I agree it doesn't really fill the Divination slot though.

Does this really need to say "When you cast?"

@Jack: It would probably be a better card that way... but it does fly away from the Mashup in the process. Mostly, I concede that this card isn't incredibly good, but I could imagine an environment where it becomes that... If, for example, you had an environment that keeps dropping 0/1 flying fairie tokens all over the battlefield. or maybe an environment flooded with a keyword on artifacts that make them hover, indestructible, and incapable of attacking or blocking (okay... I admit, that's weird. Use the token farie example instead), then this card becomes a cheap and fast Braingeyser... you're mostly limited by the mana you have, not the amount of flying creatures you got.

Also, I kind of thought the card you mentioned already existed... but it appears that there's a card between Airborne Aid and Keep Watch. Maybe I'll just add that card to New Mirrodin...

@Link: I think you're right, though it looks a bit odd to me. I cut it out anyway. Thank you.

It actually does need some consideration for what happens if the number of flying creatures changes between announcement and resolution.

Yeah, it just reads too sudden for me, too. Put "When you cast" back in.

Also, I spared everyone another pun. When I first designed this card, I almost named it "Story of The Hurricane"