Aven Squire

Exalted on a flier reads as a tidy package, and that is exactly the tension. The keyword pays out only when a creature attacks by itself, which cuts against what a small evasive body wants to be doing: a 1/1 with flying is most useful pecking in alongside a wider board, not sitting home so a single bigger threat can swing solo for the trigger. The card therefore plays two roles, and only one at a time. As a beneficiary, it can take the +1/+1 and fly over for two, but only if everything else you control stays back. As a supporter, it gives the +1/+1 to whatever you send in alone, useful if your deck is built around a lone evasive carrier and stacking multiple exalted triggers onto one swing. A single source like this is the entry-level version of that plan, the kind of common that teaches the keyword more than it warps a game around it. The clean evasion is what keeps the body from ever reading as dead: a 1/1 flier is doing work on defense and can ferry a pile of exalted bonuses when the deck does commit to one attacker. The honest read is that this is a low-cost contributor to an exalted shell, valuable when several triggers add up and forgettable on its own.