Stratosoarer

The whole trick of a landcycler is that it never quite dies in your hand: draw it too late in a grindy game and it works as an evasive blocker with an enabling trigger; draw it early and the discard mode turns a card you can't cast yet into a basic. This one splits the difference more literally than most, because the 3/5 body wants to sit on defense, the enters trigger lends a creature a temporary lift, and the basic landcycling clause quietly smooths your early curve. That flying trigger is the wrinkle worth reading twice: it targets any creature, so the reflexive "grant evasion to my beater" line is only the obvious use. Since it fires on the turn Stratosoarer enters, and the card has no flash, the flying it grants is offense-shaped: it can nudge a stalled ground pounder over a clogged board for the last few points, or push evasion onto a fresh top-deck that arrived alongside it. What it will not do is repeat: the trigger keys off Stratosoarer's own entry, so a second dip means blinking the body, not choosing the beneficiary again. It belongs to the lineage of blue fliers that double as fixing, where the body is real enough to matter and the cycling floor means a dead draw still buys you a land. The value proposition is not the rate on any single mode; it is that a five-mana card with a defensive body should not also be able to fetch you a basic, and here it can.