Lys Alana Bowmaster

Tribal anti-air built into a payoff, which is a rarer combination than it sounds. Reach gives the body a baseline job against flyers, but the real engine is the cast trigger: every Elf spell you play turns this into a repeatable 2-damage shot aimed upward, so a deck dense enough to fire it off is also a deck stacking on combat advantage. The targeting clause is the discipline that pays for the rest: it only points at creatures with flying, so it answers an entire axis of threats (evasive attackers, the airborne creatures a ground-based tribe usually has no clean answer to) without ever helping you clear ground blockers or close the game directly. That narrowness is the price for putting recurring removal on a 2/2 that costs almost nothing per trigger. Casting an Elf is the trigger, not tapping or sacrificing, which means the bowmaster fires at the speed of your own development: cantrip an Elf, develop the board, and the flyer takes 2 as a free rider on a turn you were spending anyway. It rewards going wide in a single creature type rather than splashing, and it sits in a long line of tribal lords and payoffs that ask you to commit to one creature family to unlock an effect that a fairer card would have charged real mana for.