A-Lantern Bearer // A-Lanterns' Lift

Cheap evasive fliers share a design problem: they trade once and then they are gone, contributing nothing after the first exchange. Disturb answers that by letting the same card return as an aura, and the return is structurally different from the front side. As a creature it dies to any blocker or removal spell; as Lanterns' Lift it sidesteps that risk entirely, stapling +1/+1 and flying onto something that already survived, converting a spent one-drop into evasion for a threat that matters more. The exile-instead line does the balancing work: because the aura removes itself rather than returning to the yard, the round trip happens exactly once, keeping a cheap enchant-and-fly from spiraling into a persistent value engine. The mechanic rewards patience in a specific way. Cast the body early to trade or chip in, then hold the graveyard cast until you have a creature worth escalating. Both casts follow normal sorcery-speed timing, so the sequencing decision is made on your own turn, not snuck in during combat: you commit to the aura when you can see which creature has earned the buff. It is a small card that asks two questions in sequence (attack now, or invest later) and lets you answer them a turn apart, which is more decision density than a 1/1 flier usually earns.