Feisty Spikeling

The conditional first strike is the tell: a 2/1 that carries first strike only during your turn attacks like a much larger creature and blocks like the fragile body it is. On the swing, that single point of toughness barely matters, because the ability kills the two- and three-drops trading into it before they land a hit; on the crackback, it dies to whatever it was already going to die to. That asymmetry is the entire point, and it lines up cleanly with the aggressive pull the hybrid pip encourages. The changeling text is the quieter flourish. It costs nothing on the battlefield: a two-drop that counts as Goblin, Elf, Faerie, Kithkin, and every other type slots into any creature-type shell regardless of the deck's actual theme, so an aggressive filler common quietly doubles as a tribal enabler. What you get is a cheap, flexible beater that reads as unremarkable until you notice it wins combats on offense it has no business winning on paper, and that it qualifies for whatever tribal payoff the deck happens to run.