Sighted-Caste Sorcerer

Exalted asks one creature to carry the whole attack, and the enabler that gives the bonus is rarely the one swinging: the lone attacker is some other body on the board, buffed and walking into combat alone, which makes it the most inviting target for a removal spell. The blue activation here does not solve that problem. The shroud it grants applies only to Sighted-Caste Sorcerer itself, so when this is the enabler sitting back and feeding triggers, the protection guards the wrong creature. Where the ability earns its keep is when the Sorcerer is the one attacking alone: a 1/1 swinging into a +1/+1 from its own exalted stack, then spending a blue mana to step out of range before the opponent reaches for an answer. The protection is held in reserve, deployed only when interaction is on the table, so the mana is seldom wasted. The cost is real on both ends: a body that contributes nothing without an attack, a second-color requirement that pulls a white exalted shell toward Azorius, and the symmetry of shroud, which means any pump or aura you wanted to add to the Sorcerer has to land before you make it untargetable. As an exalted enabler it is unremarkable; as a small attacker that can protect its own swing, it occupies a narrower and more honest niche than the design first suggests.