Eddytrail Hawk

The battery arrives with its own payoff already loaded: two counters on entry, enough for two flying grants at one apiece, each pointed at another attacker rather than the bird itself. That last restriction is the whole design. This is not a flier that wants to swing alone; it is a flier that lends the air to a ground creature about to be chumped or walled, clearing a stalled board for a bigger threat to connect. The 1/2 body is incidental cover for the ability, the kind of common that asks you to value the resource it produces over the creature attached to it. And because each grant costs energy, the loan runs only as long as the rest of the deck keeps refilling the meter: a self-contained two uses out of the box, more if you build around it. It sits in the line of white evasion-enablers that trade their own combat relevance for someone else's, the difference being that this one carries its first two payments in its pocket and rewards a shell full of energy producers to fund the rest.