Kitesail Cleric
A one-drop flier that early aggressive white decks are happy to run for the evasion alone, then a four-mana tempo swing when the game slows down and the extra mana is available. The kicker is doing the quiet work: it lets a single card serve two roles depending on which turn you draw it, so the same slot fills the curve on turn one and buys a clean attack step later without asking you to hold the card back. The tap-up-to-two rider is not removal (the creatures untap on the defender's next turn), so its value is a single alpha strike: pay the kicker, tap the two best blockers, and swing through with the rest of the board while getting a 1/1 flier for the trouble. That framing matters, because it means the card wants a deck already committed to attacking every turn rather than one grinding for value. The design is honest about what it asks: play it cheap and it does the small job, hold the mana and it does the bigger one, and either mode is a fair rate rather than a bargain. The one-shot nature of the tap is the restraint that lets a one-mana flier justify an optional four-mana ceiling: it clears a path for one turn instead of locking down blockers, which is precisely the ask a tempo effect this cheap can make without warping the rate.
