Wee Dragonauts

The earliest mainstream attempt to turn an evasive body into a spellslinger payoff that scales within a single turn. The 1/3 flier is not a threat on its own; it is a multiplier that converts a cantrip-and-burn turn into a clock. Cast two cheap instants and it swings for five, cast three and it swings for seven, all in the air, all in one combat step. The toughness matters more than the power: at three toughness it survives the small red and white removal of its era and the chip damage from blocking, so the pump triggers actually accumulate rather than getting wiped before they pay off. What makes the design honest is that the bonus is +2/+0 and temporary, so the creature is only as dangerous as the spells you were already casting that turn; it rewards a deck that wanted to chain cheap instants and sorceries anyway and gives that plan a finisher, rather than asking you to bend a deck around it. Note the trigger reads off the act of casting an instant or sorcery, not artifacts or enchantments, so it scales precisely with the burn-and-cantrip plan and nothing else. It sits at the head of a lineage of "spells matter" attackers that runs through the years after it, the cards that ask how much damage a hand of one-mana instants can represent if you point all of it at one evasive body. The Faerie Wizard typing is incidental flavor; the load-bearing part is the trigger condition.