Wingbeat Warrior

Granting first strike off a morph flip is a strange pairing of triggers, and it reveals what this card is really for: ambush combat. Unmasking the face-down creature during the declare-blockers step does two things at once, exposing a 2/1 flier and handing first strike to whichever creature you choose, so a trade you were about to lose becomes a kill where your blocker walks away. The first strike can land on any creature, not just this one, which is the wrinkle most people miss; the flip can rescue a separate attacker mid-combat while the flier arrives unannounced. The arithmetic is honest, though. Paying to deploy the morph hidden, then to turn it face up, spends six total mana across two turns to assemble a fragile flier with a single first-strike pump, which is a steep tax on a body this slight. The reward is timing rather than rate: the morph cost buys the surprise, and the surprise is the whole transaction. It belongs to an all-creature set design, where combat tricks had to be smuggled in on bodies because there were no instants printed to do the work. Read that way, the first-strike clause is less a bonus stapled to a creature and more the substitute for the trick the set could not print.