Sandsteppe Outcast

The choice is between sizing up now and spreading out wide. Take the counter and you have a 3/2 that hits a little harder and survives one more point of damage; take the token and you keep a 2/1 but add a flyer, two bodies for one card. Neither line is exciting on its own, but the modal split is doing honest work: it lets the same card serve an aggressive board that wants reach in the air and a more defensive build that wants a single durable threat. The flying Spirit is the more flexible mode in most builds, since a separate body chump-blocks, carries an aura, or feeds a sacrifice effect in ways a single bigger creature cannot. This is the workhorse end of white's modal-creature tradition, the line of cards that fold a small deckbuilding decision into the enters trigger so the same common does two jobs across two different decks. It asks nothing of you besides reading the board when it lands, and it rewards exactly the player who builds around going wide or going tall and wants a body that bends toward whichever plan the game is asking for.