Cloudreach Cavalry

A tribal payoff pointed across color lines rather than within a single deck: a white Human Soldier whose entire upside is gated behind controlling a Bird, a creature type white shares with blue but rarely fields on its own. With the condition met, the 1/1 swells to a 3/3 flyer, an aggressive shape for an early-era two-drop; without it, the body stays a vanilla one-power ground-pounder. That conditional is the whole pitch, and it is a strange one to bolt onto a white aggro shell, since the most dependable Birds tend to live in other colors. Switching the buff on means fielding a Bird alongside it. The delivery is the wrinkle worth dwelling on: it is a static modifier, not a one-time trigger, so the flying and the +2/+2 blink in and out with the Bird's presence on the board. Lose the Bird mid-combat and your attacker sheds its evasion and four points of stats on the spot, mid-block, with nothing to anchor what the static condition already granted. It is a design built to reward one specific board state and to quietly evaporate the instant that state stops being true, which makes the card as much a readout of how stable your Bird is as of how good the body looks when everything lines up.