Golden-Scale Aeronaut
Point this Pilot at another creature on entry and it lends its own flying for the rest of the turn; point it at itself and the counter just fattens the flier itself. That fallback is the quiet cleverness: the Aeronaut is always a legal target for its own counter, so the ability collapses to "hand one creature evasion, or grow a flier by one" depending on what the board offers. The flying on the base body is doing more work than the modest 2/3 suggests, because backup can only share abilities the source already carries. A grounded Pilot would have nothing worth lending; this one exists specifically to lift a ground creature airborne for a swing. That swing is the whole constraint. The +1/+1 counter is permanent, but the borrowed flying evaporates at cleanup, which makes the reward a single coordinated attack rather than a lasting keyword grant. The card wants its entry timed to a combat step, not sequenced out early for the stat bump alone. As backup builds go, it sits at the plain end: one counter, one keyword, no rider. The whole of the interest is in how neatly the two halves fold into each other, a flier that turns a second creature into a flier for exactly as long as it takes to connect.
