Elves are the best at going wide with tokens, ramping substantially, and pumping each other up as other elves enter (looking at you, Marwyn, the Nurturer)
The Wose is a two-drop common with a 1/1 body that taps for any color, like Utopia Tree
Shilgengar is here not only to push the tourism economy of Lavender Town, but also to sacrifice Angels
The Alchemy version, Thayan Evokers, ditches most of this design altogether for something entirely different, though double team does a fine myriad impression
Being a bit more specific, lets take a gander at the common core of good modular creatures, the ones that dont feel like an absolute waste of a slot to play on account of being a 1/1 for 1