Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
A payoff built for the exile-matters axis, which is a stranger mandate in Boros than it looks: the color pair has plenty of impulsive draw (Light Up the Stage, treasure-adjacent card advantage that plays off the top for a turn), but almost nothing that turns that mode of card advantage into a recurring engine. The Thopter trigger fires on both halves of exile play: a land played from exile counts, and so does any spell cast from exile, so every impulse-draw effect and every cheat-into-play spell pays a flying body as rent. That is the tension the design resolves. Exile-matters had a scattering of enablers but no color-pair home built to reward it every turn, and this stitches one together around a token engine that scales with how often cards are leaving exile. The haste clause is the quieter half, and it changes what those Thopters are for. Without it they are evasive chip damage on a delay; with it, every token the engine makes can attack the turn it arrives, and any other Thopter source turns aggressive immediately. What the two-mana price buys is an early enabler rather than a beater: a legendary body cheap enough to land before the engine gets rolling, so the wings are already in place by the time cards start leaving exile in bulk. The 2/3 frame holds the ground fine against small aggressors while it waits; its real job is to feed a board that keeps growing flyers.
