Bitterbloom Bearer

The old faerie-token engine was an enchantment: it sat on the battlefield doing its mandatory life-for-tokens conversion every upkeep, immune to creature removal but inert the instant it resolved, answerable only by enchantment hate. Rebuilding that same upkeep trigger onto a 1/1 flying body rewrites the entire risk profile. The engine now comes with a clock and a blocker, and flash lets it dodge a sorcery-speed window entirely: it can ambush an attacker on the crack-back or flicker in during an opponent's end step to start the token stream a turn ahead of anything the enchantment version could manage. The tradeoff is exposure. What used to be a low-interaction permanent is now a fragile creature your opponent can point any piece of removal at, and killing it before your next upkeep shuts the whole faucet off. The life loss is the meter that keeps the drain honest: each upkeep asks whether another evasive flyer is worth another point off your total, and the answer sours as the game goes long. The tokens match the caster's own type, so the board it assembles is a swarm of interchangeable one-power flyers rather than a single load-bearing threat, which is exactly what makes the swarm resilient once it has room to grow. The design commits to a clean bargain: a repeatable generator that once had to be answered as an enchantment is now a fair, killable body that pays for its speed with its skin.