Bladed Pinions

Two abilities welded onto a single colorless cheap-to-cast, cheap-to-equip Equipment, and the pairing is the entire pitch: evasion plus a combat edge that turns the equipped creature into a flyer the opponent can rarely block profitably. First strike already swings ground combat, but stapled to flying it changes the math twice over, because a flier with first strike picks its fights and wins the ones it can't avoid, trading up against larger blockers and shrugging off smaller ones. The colorless cost is what gives it reach: any deck can run it, and the flying half matters most on the kind of small, repeatable threats that want to connect for triggers rather than for raw damage. What keeps it from being a slam-dunk is the rate. The grant is generous, but two keywords on a piece of equipment that has to be cast and then paid for again to move is a lot of mana spent on a creature that still dies to a single removal spell, taking the investment with it. The result is a clean, unfussy combat enabler: no protection, no toughness boost, nothing to keep the wearer alive, just two of the most relevant attacking keywords bundled at the cheapest plausible price. It is the sort of design that lives or dies on whether the deck around it cares about getting one specific creature through, repeatedly, rather than building a bigger one.