Eagle's Rescue
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Eagle's Rescue turns a small creature into a substantial flying threat, and its repeatable graveyard ability largely offsets the usual card-disadvantage risk of Auras. It is especially strong in WU decks with plentiful 1/1 Human tokens, though four mana per deployment makes it tempo-intensive.
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Gameplay notes
When possible, place the Aura on a creature whose underlying power is 1 or less so it can remain a future recursion target after the Aura reaches the graveyard. Avoid exposing the enchanted creature to bounce or exile if you can, since those answers may prevent the Aura from reaching the graveyard for reuse.
Key synergies
The Blacksmith's base 1 power qualifies for the graveyard activation, and Eagle's Rescue turns its double strike body into a 3/3 flier that can deal 6 damage in the air.
Lake-town Lookout's 1 power makes it eligible for Eagle's Rescue's graveyard ability. If the enchanted Lookout dies, its recruit trigger can create another 1/1 Human, providing a replacement body for the Aura's next return.
The Queen can repeatedly generate 1/1 Human tokens through recruit, providing suitable bodies for Eagle's Rescue to return onto after an enchanted creature dies.
Eagle's Rescue gives a creature flying while adding 2 power, increasing the total flying power used to reduce The Lord of the Eagles' cost by three.
Bilbo's base power of 1 lets Eagle's Rescue return from the graveyard directly attached to him, and its +2/+2 converts his unblockability into three guaranteed damage while preserving his loot trigger.
Enchanting Galion makes him a flying 6/6 whose larger power and toughness can be copied onto another attacker. Alternatively, Galion can set a small enchanted creature to base 4/4, after which the Aura's bonus makes it a 6/6 flier.
Nighthowl Pursuer's printed power of 1 makes it an eligible target for Eagle's Rescue's graveyard ability, repeatedly converting the cheap menace attacker into a 3/3 flier that becomes 5/5 when Ferocious triggers.
The Saga can grant hexproof to the creature carrying Eagle's Rescue for its entire duration, making it much harder for an opponent to remove the creature and thereby disrupt the Aura-enhanced threat.
Casting Eagle's Rescue as a four-mana noncreature spell triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw four cards before discarding two. Eagle's Rescue remains useful if discarded later because it can return itself from the graveyard.
Bofur is a 1-power recursion target, while Concerted Care can give an Eagle's Rescue-enhanced creature hexproof and indestructible, protecting both the creature and the Aura from most removal for a turn.
The Notary Hobbits create three separate 1/1 creatures, giving Eagle's Rescue several eligible graveyard-recursion targets. Their mana ability also helps pay the Aura's repeated four-mana return cost.
Great Gilded Boat can recruit on every attack, repeatedly producing 1/1 Human tokens that qualify for Eagle's Rescue's graveyard ability and ensuring the Aura continues to have useful bodies to enhance.
Bard's Company's anthem makes your 1/1 Recruit tokens into 2/2 creatures, so they no longer qualify as targets for Eagle's Rescue's graveyard ability while the Company remains in play.
After providing its Forest, Wood Elves is a low-value 1/1 body that meets Eagle's Rescue's power-1 recursion condition, giving the Aura a reliable graveyard target and turning the Elf into a relevant 3/3 flyer.
Riddles can put Eagle's Rescue into the graveyard, from which it can return directly to the battlefield attached to a power-1 creature.